What's that? The terrorists have holed themselves up in one place with only one way in or out? I don't think that it's possible to overstate the opportunity this presents! A "stronghold" full of people who can't fight their own death trap.
It's possible to cull nearly all of them out of the population with probably zero civilian casualties! They wouldn't even have a chance to switch clothes and pretend to be normal citizens! It couldn't get more perfect than this. No matter how many provisions they have, they'll run out in days, not to mention a water/gas/electricity out. It's possible to block the road and wait for them to come out or simply to send in trained personnel to drag them out like screaming rats from their tunnels and then send all the ones who submitted and are still alive to re-education through labor camp.
Seems like a trap.
Now that the rioters are obviously loosing all credibility, the foreign powers pulling their strings are partly setting them up as juicy bait; but mostly trying to keep them bottled up as a means of control, to stop them beating up civilians, as they know the western MSM can no longer keep censoring such news now that they have actually murdered a civilian
If the police go in, the brainwashed and hand picked extremist amongst them would probably turn the whole thing into a giant bloodbath.
If you siege them, it’s a forced mass hunger strike.
Either way it’s live-streamed across the world and given prime time coverage by the western MSM and social media to generate sympathy points to boost their flagging international support.
The best thing to do is to cut all internet hardlines and jam all cell signals.
These brainwashed rioters’ whole sense of self worth is dependent on foreign approval.
Cut that off and see their moral collapses.
The police should bottle them up but allow food, water and medical supplies in.
If they want out, they walk out one at a time into handcuffs.
If they want to stay, they can, and the world will forget about them.