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Alex Chow, a leader from the Hong Kong Federation of Students, said further protests would follow as part of a renewed push for greater democratic rights. This is, for sure, definitely not the end of the movement, he said. This mornings act is only part of the movement.

Throughout the day police gradually squeezed the life out of the camp, pushing in from its west and east entrances and destroying the tent community as they progressed.

By 3pm they had reached Lennon Wall, the iconic multicoloured staircase mural composed of post-it notes left by supporters from around the world. An hour later, police had advanced into the camps heart an area called Umbrella Square where the protests began late September after clashes between police and protesters and where protest leaders have given nightly addresses.

Workers dismantle barricades built by pro-democracy demonstrators in the Admiralty district, Hong Kong (GETTY)

There were tense scenes as police and hundreds of protesters faced off on a side-street leading into the camp.

We are not seeing the end but the beginning, said Leung Kwok-hung, a pro-democracy lawmaker better known by the nickname Long Hair, as riot police, some carrying chainsaws, turned the once vibrant tent community into a debris-strewn wasteland. I dont feel sad. I feel there is hope in the struggle.

Two hours later, the activist was dragged away by police, shouting: "We will be back. Democracy will win.

Across the camp, tearful protesters looked on helplessly as their temporary homes were torn down and scooped up by cranes that tossed them into a fleet of open-backed lorries.

I cried so much this morning, said Kitty Woo, 44, who had been camped out since the protests began in September. Weve built a village community here and it is very sad to see it go.

It is my birthday today but it is also the saddest birthday in my life, said Benjamin Ng, a 44-year-old church worker.

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Workers dismantle barricades built by pro-democracy demonstrators at the main protest site in the Admiralty district in Hong Kong on December 11, 2014. DALE de la REY/AFP/Getty Images

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.

Watched by police, workers in white helmets used box cutters and pliers to remove plastic ties from the barricades, which were made up of metal and plastic safety barriers topped with traffic cones and scaffolding poles. They then passed parts of the barricades to co-workers who quickly shuffled them away to the side of the road.

The protesters reject Beijing's restrictions on the first election for the city's top leader, scheduled for 2017, but have failed to win any concessions from Hong Kong's government, and the movement's momentum has faded recently as the government stuck to its apparent strategy of waiting the protesters out.

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Politics student Max Leung, 22, said he felt sad to see the barricades removed and would stay until police cleared the area. He said he was willing to be arrested but would not resist officers.

"We redefined the public space," Leung said at his tent set up within the zone. "It was supposed to be just cars and now we occupy it, we have a study area for students in the middle of the highway, people here they care about each other."

The workers were carrying out a court restraining order calling for barriers to be dismantled and obstructions removed from three sections of the protest site. Police then plan to move in to clear other blocked sections of road so that traffic can start flowing again.

The operation will be under close scrutiny with a group of about 30 academics monitoring the operation, along with the Independent Police Complaints Council and human rights groups.

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Hong Kong authorities prepared on Thursday to clear part of the city's main pro-democracy protest site that has choked roads leading to the most economically and politically important district for more than two months over calls for free elections.

The mainly peaceful protests have represented the most serious challenge to China's authority since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations and bloody crackdown in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Hundreds of police arrived in the Admiralty district next to government buildings early on Thursday to help enforce an injunction order against street barricades erected by protesters after a request from a Hong Kong bus company.

Many protesters packed up pillows, blankets and other belongings from inside their tents as they prepared to leave.

"Some of my friends are prepared to stay till the last moment, but I will walk away," said 20-year-old student Lucy Tang. "I will for sure miss this place. It has become my home."

A large yellow banner bearing an umbrella and the words "We'll be back" was draped in the center of the highway where protesters have camped out, with similar messages scrawled on roads and posted on tents.

Next to a base of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in the heart of the city, a huge orange banner erected across barricades said: "It's just the beginning."

People at some supply stations were bracing for possible clashes with police, laying out boxes of goggles and umbrellas for students to protect themselves against any use of pepper spray or batons.

The Admiralty site has stood as a poignant symbol of calls for democracy that have been spurned by the government and Communist Party rulers in Beijing.

Hundreds of tents have dotted the eight-lane highway that connects some of the city's most important financial and commercial districts since late September.

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