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Protesters throw petrol bombs at police outside Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon on November 17. Photo: Kyodo

Letters | Hong Kong protests: which country in the world would tolerate this level of violence?

My amazement at Michael Chugani’s columns never ceases! In his November 28 column (“Hongkongers show they are not afraid to stand up to Beijing’s heavy hand”), he misleads readers about our government “trapping teenagers inside a rotting campus, starving them out, thereby forcing many to crawl through toxic sewers”.

Living in Hong Kong, doesn’t he know the rioters locked themselves in the campus which they caused to be “rotting”, making and hoarding explosive weapons? Has he forgotten that these “poor victims” were the ones who caused such horrendous damage that it led to the closure of that university and our main cross-harbour tunnel for nearly two weeks?

Which country in the world would stand for this type of behaviour and still try endlessly to coax them into emerging peacefully? The United States, of which Mr Chugani is a citizen? Singapore? France or the UK?

US winning the propaganda war in Hong Kong

He threatens that we should expect violence to return to our streets unless the other four demands are met in totality! Did we enjoy these four demanded rights under British rule? I would like to ask Mr Chugani to clearly state the reasons why rioters found by the courts to have committed crimes against Hong Kong should be set free.

It is bad enough that, because of the refusal to pass the extradition law, people who have committed serious crimes in mainland China or Taiwan can now freely be holed up in Hong Kong, at the expense of my security.

Now their argument is: “But we abhor China!” I ask what has China done to you, Mr Chugani, and the protesters, in the past 22 years to make you so full of fear and hate?

The only case that springs to mind could be the five publishers printing propaganda against China. I can name quite a few countries that are not even communist that would prosecute.

As for the recent violence that has put all of Hong Kong under siege for six months, please do not turn the tables and market it as police brutality! The police did much too little, too late, by international standards until it got way out of hand, affecting the livelihood of Hong Kong.

K.H. Tang, Quarry Bay

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