HONG KONG: A week before suspected triad gang members attacked protesters and commuters at a rural Hong Kong train station last Sunday (Jul 21), ...
Men in white T-shirts and carrying poles talk to riot police in Yuen Long after attack on anti-extradition bill demonstrators at a train station in Hong Kong, China, July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
"If he didn't say this, the violence wouldn't have happened, and the triads wouldn't have beaten people," he told Reuters in his office close to the station. The government's refusal to do so - it has agreed only to suspend the bill so far - have led to two months of sometimes violent demonstrations across the city.
While Hong Kong's triads - ancient secret societies that morphed into mafia-style underworld operations - no longer hold the high profile of previous decades they remain entrenched in some grittier districts and in rural areas, according to police. Democratic Party district councillor Zachary Wong said Li's message was having an impact in the days leading up to Sunday's violence and he had received repeated calls from associates a day earlier saying something was brewing.
Ho later told reporters he had no knowledge of or involvement in the violence, but was merely reaching out to his constituents.Several hours later, when the most violent assaults took place at the train station, there were still no police present to prevent the bloodshed.
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