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Video shows protesters tossing bricks at Coast Guard ships during Senkaku incident

BY YOSHIHITO KAWAMI STAFF WRITER

2012/08/29

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photoA Hong Kong activist hurls bricks at a Japan Coast Guard vessel off the Senkaku Islands on Aug. 15. (Provided by Japan Coast Guard)photoA Japan Coast Guard ship fires water cannon at the Hong Kong activists. (Provided by Japan Coast Guard)photoMembers of the protest boat attempt to land on one of the disputed Senkaku Islands. (Provided by Japan Coast Guard)photoTwo Japan Coast Guard cutters sandwich a Hong Kong boat in waters off the Senkaku Islands in an attempt to get it to change course. (Provided by Japan Coast Guard)

The Japan Coast Guard released video footage showing protesters aboard a Hong Kong fishing boat hurling bricks at two patrol vessels as they attempted to make an unauthorized landing on the disputed Senkaku Islands two weeks ago.

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