Photo: Vincent Yu/ AP
After more than eleven weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, the protestors have been finally evicted from their encampments.
After the government obtained court injunctions to dismantle the barricades and clear the camps – the police and their minions moved in to purge the streets. Those who refused to leave were hauled off. Seventeen arrests were made when the very last protest camp in the Causeway Bay shopping district was pulled down on Monday. There were scuffles here and there but resistance was futile.
Even as the protests peter out, I expect these protests to return in the future. It's a ceasefire, that is all. And methinks, they will be more prepared to do battle the next time around.
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