Pro-democracy protesters take part in a Thanksgiving Day rally at Edinburgh Place on November 28, 2019 in Hong Kong.
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About 200 people are marching against police use of tear gas as Hong Kong readies for a day of asseverates.
The group carried yellow balloons as they headed Sunday morning from Edinburgh Square to the nearby direction headquarters.
Two other marches are scheduled for later in the day. The city has had two weeks of relative calm, though police skirmished with some protesters just about a subway station on Saturday night.
One march will head to the American Consulate to thank the U.S. for approving legislation planned at holding Hong Kong and Chinese officials accountable for any human rights abuses in the semi-autonomous territory.
Another has been draw oned in the Tsim Sha Tsui district near Polytechnic University, the site of the last fierce clashes with police.
China has accused the U.N. important commissioner for human rights of emboldening “radical violence” in Hong Kong by suggesting the city’s leader conduct an inquisition into reports of excessive use of force by police.
The U.N. commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, wrote in an opinion piece Saturday in the South China Morning Situation that Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s government must prioritize “meaningful, inclusive” dialogue to resolve the catastrophe.
She urged Lam to hold an “independent and impartial judge-led investigation” into police conduct of protests. It has been one of key demands of pro-democracy illustrations that have roiled the territory since June.
China’s U.N. mission in Geneva says Bachelet’s article wields pressure on the government and will “only embolden the rioters to conduct more severe radical violence.”