Worried about their future. Im melissa chan welcome to d. W. 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 to 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 try. 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. But 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 our. Car 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. A while ago that was 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. While almighty think hes our audit it might i used to serve in the Colonial Police fals case held off when the British Government could decide on everything. Well hong kong belongs to china case at pace there are problems at the Hong Kong Government cant solve it makes sense that beijing intervenes but i dont buy woman. But fewer and fewer hong kong as theyre willing to accept beijing zokora to come to clashes between police and protesters escalating with petrol bombs and bricks being 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 if 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 i like to bring in monkey tom of Amnesty International hong kong to talk more about this among k your organization is demanding a full investigation into Police Brutality what have you documented. Well unfortunately Amnesty International is new to this occasion so different conclusion we documented and alarming pattern of the Hong Kong Police force and. Excessive use of force against passes and evidence d of torture and on that you treat many hands for example in several cases you can detain the who passes have been getting severely beaten up you in custody and man for example detained at a Police Station and when he refused to answer hold these questions he was taken to an audio room and then being upset. And was threatened back to break his hands if he tried to pull techies out and also during a rest going out and see what young we all knew and. Was locked down at the ground and then Police Officers continued 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 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 what has as throwing weights petrol bombs they used a while our loans and i think thats what he says the letters are made bases to rest than 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 force theyve used and mostly potter need to preserve their right to life but in many of the incidents that weve documented is what is wasnt being is were going to cage stray monkey 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 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. Because this will go off the shelves on. The working of the sun for 6 months and i quote that thats the nickel i was scared when i found my memorys not on the list now i hope everything will be ok in my area because i do. The least 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 goli speaking muslims many of whom came from the neighboring indian state of west bengal the government denies the climb but they suffer as 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. 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 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 which i draw graphically are moved and this also might have to do with the fact that the government at the center of the b. G. 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 the zip 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. Focus 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 fueled by the war for a bottle of the she liberation in 1971 now if you will also the people demanding the n. R. C. They do not discriminate between hindus or muslims they also want hindu bangladeshis to be revealed 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 and this is a citizenship register of the 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 for a blimp as worked out with bangladesh repack creation is an option but also short of a bookworm with so right now no clear picture about what exactly will happen you mean she dies well thank you. Thats 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. To. Enter the conflict zone with tim sebastian. Ill be challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding ourselves. 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