Even before dawn on Thursday, hundreds of paramilitary soldiers and baton-wielding riot police began arriving to form a human cordon around the public park.

甚至在星期四天亮之前，数百名准军事人员和挥舞着警棍的防暴警察开始包围公园，在公园四周设置警戒圈。

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