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to the barricades

"'A rights group expressed fears yesterday that security personnel might use excessive force against anti-globalization protesters at a WTO meeting in Hong Kong, as the territory's police stocked up on riot control equipment. The Police Tactical Unit has ordered rubber bullets and lead-filled bean bags, Commandant Suen Kwai-leung said. The thumb-sized bean bags are fired from guns and, like rubber bullets, are intended to be non-lethal. 'The goal is to have ammunition that is slightly harmful,' Suen told reporters.'"
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