Staff at one of Hong Kong’s top universities picked through the chaotic aftermath of a violent occupation by protesters for a second day Wednesday as the school searches for elusive holdouts — and a way forward for a devastated institution. The first task before a police cordon can be dismantled and normality can return is to determine whether any hidden protesters remain. But sweeps through the campus by university personnel have been inconclusive. Either way, a university that regularly makes lists of top-ranked Asian institutions faces a massive clean-up and uncertain future. “Give me liberty or give me death,” read one, not far from where a makeshift Statue of Liberty stood.

Source: Egypt Independent November 27, 2019 11:03 UTC