Hong Kong: Young Hong Kongers who marshalled the fight against a police force that was armed with tear gas and rubber bullets have spoken of how they were pushed into embracing more confrontational tactics by the failure of years of peaceful protests.
In a series of interviews, the young men and women – most of them university students – said they had become disillusioned with marches and civil disobedience failing to sway the city’s largely unelected pro-Beijing leadership.
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