Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us hong kong has seen 16 straight weekends of prodemocracy protests at this point and the battle on the streets have been matched by a battle for the hearts and minds demonstrators say the city stands with some government officials insist a silent majority exists one thats opposed to the protesters demands Mathias Bolinger has been speaking to 2 retired Police Officers who believe long in that progovernment camp. Joseph it has agreed to meet us although he says he does not trust the press so well mind recording our conversation ok he is a retired Police Officer and a staunch supporter of the Hong Kong Government side in the Current Crisis the side that he feels is not representative accurately in most news outlets. I start awarding the kneelers. Since july. Watching just a white or News Reporter but you know because i can still get in touch what was happening from all those messages from my friends. The longer the protests last the most strident and both camps refused to communicate with each other internet forums are shaping and polarizing opinions in each group rumors and conspiracy theories are rampant and when both sides meet things often get argued. Hard for a long is also a retired Police Officer when he walks through his neighborhood it is hard for him to miss messages from the Anti Government protesters they have set up a socalled lennon wall near his home. While they do that here it says police are murdering people but in fact the protesters a very aggressive the police are just maintaining law and order tot. Mom has just returned from a long stay abroad and says he doesnt recognize his city anymore. In his spare time he sometimes helps out at Police Stations as a volunteer handing out food and drinks to the front line offices and while he says he understands demands for greater democracy he doesnt think they are realistic. Well call by the sink is all it did when i used to serve in the Colonial Police force case out of in the British Government could decide on everything carol hong kong belongs to china case at pace there are problems at the Hong Kong Government cant solve it makes sense that by jing intervenes i dont buy women. But fewer and fewer hong kong as are willing to accept beijings authority and the clashes between police and protesters escalating with petrol bombs and bricks thrown by radical protesters and police being accused of deliberately hurting demonstrators and passers by. In a recent poll almost 3 quarters of respondents said that they thought police was using excessive violence joseph also started his career in colonial times does not agree at my time we are taught that when. Rioters of throwing petrol bomb at you. Should them before live rounds. But now i think they are doing a great job in the sense that they are. Dead restrained hes glad he says that he is not on active duty anymore. So weve got former Police Officers saying that the force has actually acted with great restraint all Things Considered id like to bring in mine k. Tom of Amnesty International hong kong to talk more about this a monkey your organization is demanding a full investigation into Police Brutality what have you documented. Well unfortunately Amnesty International is new to us occasion so if one conclusion we documented and our main pattern of the Hong Kong Police was an. Excessive use of force against passes and evidence d of torture and other in treatment hands for example in several cases it hanged detained who passes have been beating severely beaten up doing custody a man for example detained at a Police Station and when he refused to answer Police Questions he was taken to an audio room and then being upset. And was threatened back to break his hands if he tried to call tech in south and also during a rest at going out and sound what young we all know and. Was locked down at the ground and then Police Officers contineu to aid her after her hands were tied up tight so this kind of pecker demonstrate that. The Police Excessive use of force becomes fairly common and therefore we are all are a and independent investigation against these kind of. Afterburners right but some of the protesters have been violent i mean what are police supposed to do if somebody is lobbing molotov cocktails at them well in those cases it has as throwing away. Petrol bombs they used a while power loans and i think thats what he says the letter made basis to arrest them but the principle i mean the International Law on the use of force the principles are 1st they have to stop that foul urns and and try to minimize the whole state use and most importantly to preserve the right to life but in many of the incidents that we documented is what is wasnt being is were going to take stray mike a time thank you. Thank you you can read more about the ongoing protests in hong kong on d. W. Dot com forward slash asia and on facebook and twitter. To india now where concerns are growing in the Northeastern State of asama that people excluded from a controversial new registry of citizens could be sent to Detention Camps the government says it created the registry to route out undocumented migrants but almost 2000000 people many of whom have spent their entire lives in india now face an uncertain future they fear they could be stripped of their citizenship and incarcerated in camps now under construction across the state this building site is creating anxiety in many parts of assam state the workers are constructing a Detention Camp theyll be space for some 3000 inmates its not yet clear exactly who will be sent here but close to 2000000 assam residents are at risk of being incarcerated in camps like this one. Because their names were excluded from a list of socalled verified citizens published by the government in organist. In a strange twist some of the construction workers building the camp fear they themselves may end up imprisoned here. Gus this will go off the shelves once yeah youll be working at the site for 6 months. Thats then and i was scared when i found my name was not on the list now i hope everything will be ok in my area because i do. The list is causing distress among many communities in assam a state of some 33000000 people those left off the list of being asked to produce documents proving that their family has lived there for a certain length of time or face being stripped of their citizenship. Critics say the measure targets been goalie speaking muslims many of whom came from the neighboring indian state of west bengal the government denies the climb but this offers little comfort for those who feel losing everything. We have not any connection with Foreign Countries like bangladesh or pakistan we have grown and bought up here. Our names are not included in this list so we are very scared we are scared of. Own future and our own childrens this camp is just one of 6 thats being built by the government in assam its due to be operational by next year then it will become clear to the local authorities have decided to inter and as has been suggested by some politicians with such camps will also be built in the Indian States joining us to talk more about this is. All in the shit this seems outrageous how people across the country taking this about melissa surprisingly there have not really been any mosque broadcasts all movements across the rest of india about this National Register of citizens partly this might have to do with the fact that what may be considered mainland and does not concern itself with local the local level politics in the Northeastern States without your graphicly have moved and this also might have to do with the fact that the government at the center of the b. G. P. Has simply pointed out this exercise as a way to respond to local assamese demands to weed out Illegal Immigrants illegal bombing of the shiva grounds so people in the rest of india might feel Illegal Immigrants should be rated out that sounds about fair and the ruling because it is actually a very Popular Party which also might explain why most of the country does not seem to be bothered by the n. R. C. Now the report mentioned that most of the people likely to be impacted are muslims so why is this happening and why is this happening now. Thats important to understand that this is a brand of assamese something nationalism which has been running for decades the demand for the n. R. C. Has been running for decades the people of assam the ethnic people of assam believe that their demographics have been affected by illegal immigration from bangladesh specially fuelled by the war for battle of the she liberation in 1971 now if you also the people demanding the n. R. C. They do not discriminate between hindus or muslims they also want hindu bangladeshis to be reviewed out but however another law passed by the Scottish Government at the center by the b. G. P. Government actually allows any hindus who might have been left off of the n. R. C. To be included simply by the fact that they are hindus that they are minorities in bangladesh which basically means that the people who will be left out at the end will be muslims so this belief also predicts that this is a charter and this is a citizenship register that targets muslim may well be true very quickly how likely will these people be put in Detention Camps and we saw them being built but it hasnt happened yet well again with so theres a lot of guesswork happening here Detention Camps are an option if an agreement is worked out with bangladesh back creation is an option that also showed in her book with the right now no clear picture about what exactly will happen you mean she dies well thank you. 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