began the struggle for freedom. person courage or a good book or scored a goal no telephone call for almost every room you've been in the courtroom we are privileged didn't surprise me i saw it coming 10 years before her departure and. what does it take to change the course of history. raising the curtain start september 30th on d w. w news coming up a divided city protesters in hong kong have been loud and vocal but not everyone shares their view to hear from the 2 retired police officers who supports the government we also talk to police when challenged with amnesty international. and are these people building their own prison muslim families in india's states are worried about their future.

i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us hong kong has seen 16 straight weekends of pro-democracy 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 them government officials insist a silent majority exists one that's opposed to the protesters demands. bolinger has been speaking to 2 retired police officers who believe long in that pro-government camp. joseph it has agreed to meet us although he says he does not trust the press so we'll 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 represented accurately in most news outlets. i start awarding the neils. 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 because the longer the protests last the most strident the both camps refused to communicate with each other internet forums are shaping and polarizing opinions in each group rumors and ones here is the theories. and when both sides meet things often get our. coffee and one 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 so-called lennon wall near his home. and while they do that here it says police

are murdering people but in fact the protestors a very aggressive the police are just maintaining law and order tot. mom has just returned from a long stay abroad and says he doesn't recognize his city anymore. in his spare time he sometimes helps out at the 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 doesn't think they are realistic. i'll call my niece in case our legitimate i used to serve in the colonial police fals case held off then the british government could decide on everything. well hong kong belongs to china case at pace there are problems at the hong kong government can't solve it makes sense that by doing intervenes for them by woman. but fewer and fewer hong kong is are willing to accept beijing's authority and the

clashes with 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 that my time we are taught that when. writers of throwing petrol bomb at you. should them before live rounds. but now that i think they are doing a great job in the sense that they are. dead restrained he's glad he says that he is not on active duty anymore. so we've got former police officers saying that

the force has actually acted with great restraint all things considered i'd like to bring in tom of amnesty international hong kong to talk more about this a monk a 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 are the hong kong police was an. excessive use of force against passes and evidence 'd of torture and on the treatment hand say for example in several cases it hanged detained who passes have been beating severely beaten up doing custody and man for example detained at a police station and when he weakly is on civilities passions she was taken to an auto room and then being upset. and was threatened there to break his hands if he tried to pull tech in south and also during

a rest at going out and see what young we all know and. was locked down at the ground and then police officers contineu to beat her after her hands were tied up tight so these kind of. demonstrate that. the police excessive use of force becomes very common and therefore we are small are a and independent investigation against these kind of. evidence 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 what would has as throwing away. petrol bombs they used a while foul loans and i think that's what he says to let them a 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 full state use and most importantly to preserve their right to life but in many of the incidents that we've documented is what is wasn't being is we're going to cage stray mike a town 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 a sum 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 $2000000.00 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 they'll be space for some 3000 inmates it's 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 so-called verified citizens published by the government in august in a strange twist some of the construction workers building the camp fear they themselves may end up imprisoned here. because this will go off the shelves once i've been working in the sun for 6 months. that's the no i was scared when i found my memory's 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 this 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 brought up here. our names are not included in this list so we are very scared we are scared of or on future and our own children's this camp is just one of 6 that's being built by the government in assam it's 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 the. wall let me show this seems outrageous how are people across the country taking this well 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 to a local level politics in the northeastern states would argue a graphically of 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 read out that sounds about fair and that the ruling reason 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. bonus that's 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 original people of assam believe that their demographics have been affected by illegal immigration from bangladesh specially fuelled by the war for a bottle of the she liberation in 1971 now if you aust 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 of this belief also critics that this is the charter 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 hasn't happened yet well again with so there's a lot of guesswork happening here detention camps are an option if an agreement does worked out with bangladesh repack creation is an option that also should have book one with so right now no clear picture about what exactly will happen. thank

you. that's our show for today we leave you with impressions from vietnam where the noise pride parade took place this past weekend thanks for watching goodbye. technology. market.

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