Hong Kong remembers Tiananmen, fearful for its own future
A group of Hong Kong University students cleaning the ‘The Pillar of Shame’, an art piece dedicated to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, at Hong Kong University in Hong Kong, China, today. – EPA pic, June 4, 2019.
CROWDS began arriving for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong today evening marking 30 years since China’s bloody Tiananmen crackdown, a gathering tinged with symbolism as the city struggles to preserve its own cherished freedoms. The eye-catching spectacle – in which tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens clutch candles, sing songs and listen to emotional speeches – is the only place in China were mass commemorations can be safely held.
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