Pro-democracy protesters hiding out the Hong Kong Polytechnic University are fearful and exhausted, but defiant.
“The police say we are a hundred. We avoid giving a number but I can tell you that we are many more,” says one protester who introduces himself as “Mike”.Hundreds of protesters have left the PolyU in recent days, a large majority of whom were arrested. Many were aged under 18. An array of empty beer bottles, canisters of petrol, cooking oil and chemicals are discarded on the floor – an abandoned workshop for molotov cocktails, which were thrown in their hundreds during the fierce defence of the campus from a police incursion earlier in the week.
He declines to say exactly his role in the initial clashes but believes police at one point threatened to shoot at him with live fire.After the initial confrontations, the stand-off turned into a siege as police surrounded the complex and arrested anyone who tried to escape. Police aren’t revealing their tactics, but after nearly one week it seems they may be prepared to just wait for the final protesters to emerge from the campus.
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