Tens of thousands in Hong Kong boycott first day of school
By NADIA LAM and VINCENT YU today
HONG KONG (AP) — Clad in gas masks along with their formal white school uniforms, tens of thousands of students in Hong Kong boycotted the first day of classes Monday as part of a citywide strike following a violent weekend of demonstrations.
High school students added gas masks, goggles and hard hats to their traditional uniforms, while university pupils crowded into a square at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Workers also participated in their own rally at a public park, braving strong winds and storm clouds as a typhoon threatened.
Nearly three months of youth-dominated protests — calling for democracy and an independent inquiry into police conduct — will be tested as classes resume with the end of the summer break in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
The young protesters strove to demonstrate their continued determination with Monday’s school boycott, the first of a planned two-day strike.
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Hong Kong Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said he hoped students would stay in class.
“Schools should not be used as places for political demands or exercising pressure,” he said at a government briefing.
Hey Kevin Yeung........................did you by some strange chance look at what they (communists) are doing over from the border from Hong Kong and the re-education camps they have set up in the communist state programs..................
