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Night on the Fated Train: We have no weapon, how could we strike back?

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Ah Chun attended the rally on Hong Kong Island last year on July 21. After the rally, he went to take the MTR to Yuen Long and from there take a connecting bus home.

When arriving the Yuen Long station at around 10:45pm, he overheard unusual happening at the station concourse.

A group of passengers went down to the station concourse where they saw 3 people in white shirt smacking others. Ah Chun and other passengers howled for the white-clad to stop.

However, more and more white-clads stormed into the train station, holding rattans and wood sticks as weapons. Ah Chun was taking photos with his phone so he was targeted and smacked on his arm. He also witnessed how the white-clad attacked Ho Guai-lan, a female reporter of Stand News. “She was outside the turnstile gate. I can’t save her. She was standing too close to the fighting scene...”

“We have no weapon, how could we strike back? The best we could do was to use backpack as cover.” Sadly, Ah Chun didn’t wear a backpack that evening, so he used his hands and arms to protect himself. Two civilians came to protect Ah Chun using their backpacks, but they were hit on their head and nose, causing severe bleeding.

Some civilians then grabbed fire hose and shot water at the white-clad, “we learnt this from the Police, shoot water to disperse them.”

Later on, Ah Chun saw two police officers walk by Yuen Long Station. At the moment, most passengers were behind the turnstile gate, standing off with the white-clads. The Police walked by a restaurant which was only 10 – 20 meters away.

These officers could certainly see the scene, not mentioning that civilians were desperately shouting for their assistance. Such cries fell on deaf ears, as the officers walked away as if not noticing anything. They did not engage the situation, not even slowing down their steps and departed the station via exit G.

“They just walked straight by, not doing anything. Why are they armed for?”

Legislator Lam Cheuk-ting and his assistant arrived Yuen Long slightly later than Ah Chun and became the target of white-clad gangsters. They went up to the station platform with other passengers and boarded a train that just arrived, not knowing that the train would remain at the station with its doors open for the duration of the attack.

The white-clad gangsters chasing after the group of passengers also arrived at the platform, leaving the civilians unable to escape. Ah Chun then witnessed another horrific scene of the 721 incident.

Ah Chun’s video showed that the white-clads used rattans and wood sticks, wrapped in the Chinese National Flag, to attack civilians curled up in train cabin. They have nothing to protect themselves but umbrellas. The cabin was filled with screams and chaos.

Source: Stand News #Apr19
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