Who are the men in white behind Hong Kong's mob attack on train commuters?
In this July 21, 2019 image made from video footage run by The Stand News via AP Video, white shirted men attacked a man dressed in black shirt at a subway station in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is reeling after a large gang of men in white shirts brutally beat dozens of people inside a train station in a shocking new twist to the city’s summer of protest.
They descended on Yuen Long station a little more than an hour before midnight, apparently targeting pro-democracy demonstrators but hitting others as well. T. Wing Lo, an organized crime expert at the City University of Hong Kong, said the scale of the attack indicated that it was likely organized by a triad that, with the promise of payment, rounded up people in the rural area to participate.
“The Hong Kong triad only works for money, not for political ideology,” Lo said. “They will work for anyone.”Because the deals are arranged through a middleman, the actual commissioners of triad actions often remain unknown.
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