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'The protesters trashed the city's once-superb metro system, blocked major roads and railways, vandalised private and public property, assaulted bystanders who disagreed with them, and dug up entire streets to use the paving stones as weapons' (Photo: Studio Incendo)

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Letter to the editor on Hong Kong

Sir,

Natalie Bennett claims that on the EUobserver opinion page law enforcement by the Hong Kong Police in reaction to the occupation of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is "an act of war, perpetrated by heavily armed officers against largely unarmed protesters inside the university", and that the Hong Kong Police has shot "unarmed protesters" at point blank range.

It is simply not true that most of the protestors are unarm...

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Eddie Cheung is special representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Union.

'The protesters trashed the city's once-superb metro system, blocked major roads and railways, vandalised private and public property, assaulted bystanders who disagreed with them, and dug up entire streets to use the paving stones as weapons' (Photo: Studio Incendo)

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Eddie Cheung is special representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Union.

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