Hong Kong: Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze after police warned that they may use live rounds, deepening fears over how nearly six months of unrest will end.
Yesterday’s violence extended a dangerous new phase of the crisis, which in the past week saw schools shut down, roads barricaded and Chinese soldiers briefly leave their local barracks to clean up streets.China has refused to budge on any of the protesters’ key demands, which include free elections for the city of 7.5 million people and an end to the perceived erosion of liberties under China’s tightening grip.