TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Hong Kong on Tuesday cleared part of a protest camp. Barricades near government buildings at Admiralty were removed.
The protesters did not put up any resistance. “This is unacceptable to the protesters,” pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan said.
Last week, a Hong Kong court ordered the protesters to clean up the area and Mong Kok District. Hong Kong Student Federation, one of the main actors of the protest, urged all of their followers not to fight back to avoid confrontation.
In a poll by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aroudn two third of Hong Kong citizens want the pro-democracy protest to end. From 1,000 respondents, 67.4 percent said protesters should dissolve, 43.5 percent said they no longer support the protest and 33.9 percent still support.
The protesters are opposing Beijing’s policy that regulates Hong Kong elections in 2017. Candidates can only go forward under Beijing’s approval while Hong Kong citizens want free elections.
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