8 years ago
Tiananmen Square Vigil Draws Thousands in Hong Kong
While Hong Kongers crammed into a park Saturday to remember the victims of China’s bloody crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 27 years ago, many student groups held rival events in a sign of the widening rift in the city’s pro-democracy movement. The annual evening vigil at Victoria Park is the only large-scale public commemoration of Beijing’s brutal crackdown held on Chinese soil. About the only sign in Beijing that it was the anniversary of the crackdown was the tightened security around Tiananmen Square.
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