More than 100 former residents of the Nationalist stronghold of Rennie's Mill stormed the lobby of the Legislative Council building yesterday.
The fierce anti-communists, who were protesting for more compensation for the demolition of their homes a decade ago, refused police orders to leave.
It took the intervention of two legislators and a meeting with housing chief Michael Suen Ming-yeung, arranged on his personal mobile phone, to get them to disperse.
Rennie's Mill was built on Junk Bay, south of Tseung Kwan O, by refugees from the mainland in the 1950s.
A 1996 court ruling awarded the residents upwards of $500 million in compensation from the government for their relocation.
The protesters - whose homes made way for the Tiu Keng Leng development but who claim their village's removal was a political conspiracy - stormed through the legislators' entrance, past security guards and into the lobby just before lunchtime.
They demanded to meet Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands Mr Suen, who had been addressing legislators earlier but had by then left the building.
