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Clashes return to HK streets

Afp, Hang Kong
Hong Kong riot police yesterday fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, as a standoff in a working-class district descended into violence.
The city has been gripped by three months of street protests that started against a proposed extradition bill to China but have spun out into a wider pro-democracy movement.
An uneasy peace was prevailing this week but that was broken yesterday as thousands of demonstrators - many wearing hard hats and gas masks - marched through the industrial Kwun Tong area, where they were blocked by dozens of officers with shields and batons outside a police station.
Frontline protesters pulled together a barricade of traffic barriers and bamboo construction poles, spraypainting walls with insults directed at the police.
on "a large group of violent protesters' who had set fires and hurled bricks.
The city had appeared to have pulled back from a sharp nosedive into violence, with the last serious clashes taking place a week and a half ago just after protests paralysed the financial hub's airport.
Tension flickered throughout yesterday's march, where dozens of the most radical demonstrators known as "braves" had gathered, battle-hardened by a three-month street campaign.
Hundreds of thousands marched peacefully last Sunday, as a key protest group sought to regain the moral high ground in a city shocked at the level of violence.
But Saturday's face-off underscored the dangerous deadlock into which the city has sunk - with the government unmoving in the face of protester demands, and demonstrators stubbornly refusing to leave the streets.
China has used a blend
As the afternoon wore on some fired stones from slingshots, prompting a charge from police wielding batons and pepper spray.
Tear gas swept across the road as protesters retreated, leaving a trail of broken bottles and at least one small fire in their wake.
Several of the black-clad protesters were detained as officers swept through, with police justifying their charge
of intimidation, propaganda and economic muscle to constrict the protests in a strategy dubbed "white tenor" by the movement.
Protests started against a bill that would have allowed extradition to China, but have bled into wider calls for democracy and police accountability in the semi-autonomous city. Protesters say Hong Kong's unique freedoms are in jeopardy as Beijing tightens its political chokehold on the city.