“Take the triads fixed”: protesters in Hong Kong have been attacked by masked opponents. The protesters believe that the Chinese Mafia is behind it – and are now demanding a crackdown on the masked men.

Masked men have torn down the barricades in the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. The assailants attacked the protesters in the center of the port city. “They are destroying drugs and stockpile,” complained a pro-democracy activist. The police attempted to distinguish the two groups.

“Take the Triads firmly,” shouted protesters in the area. They expected the masked men of the Chinese mafia. “Arms, weapons” cried other demonstrators. Recently there had been multiple reports, members of the triads had provoked the activists deliberately. More than a week protesters were attacked by hired thugs. The police had then revealed relations with the triads in violent attackers.

“They look like criminals,” said a student who had followed the new violent attacks on protesters. Some of the masked men had stormed to a group of protesters and had met an old man with a hard object on the head, reported the eyewitness.

Activists complained that opponents not only tore down barricades, but also stole personal belongings of the protesters. Several hundred protesters had camped further in the night to protest the three locations in Admiralty and Causeway Bay and Mong Kok in the business district on the Kowloon peninsula.

Protests in Hong Kong:Protestee stand behind China’s Government

The protesters are calling for more democracy, while the opponents protest the disabilities complain through roadblocks and stand behind the standing government loyal to Beijing. The protests in the now largely autonomously ruled the Chinese special administrative region had kindled in decisions of the Beijing People’s Congress, in 2017, although to allow first direct election in Hong Kong, but to deny the voters a free nomination of candidates.

On Monday morning, the police have begun to remove barricades. Activists were first alerted the police but could provide. This cleared away especially metal grid, which they had set up at the beginning of the protests themselves. The demonstrators had it connected to the barricades.

Leung Chun Ying, the controversial Chief Executive of Hong Kong, had announced on Sunday in local television, the communist leadership in Beijing would not drop its decision to allow only 2,017 advance certain candidates at the election of his successor. “No chance,” Leung said literally to the demand of the protesters after free elections.

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