Thousands Mark Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary Despite Ban in Hong Kong
2020-06-04
People attend a candlelight vigil along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront in Hong Kong to mark the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, June 4, 2020. AFP
Thousands of people defied a ban in Hong Kong on Thursday to commemorate those who died in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), while relatives held a low-key memorial ceremony at a Beijing cemetery.
With a draconian sedition and subversion law due to be imposed on the city by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and in spite of multiple barriers set up around Victoria Park to keep crowds out, people found their way regardless onto the multiple soccer pitches where a candlelight vigil has been held for massacre victims for the past 30 years.
Vigil organizers the Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China had planned to livestream a brief ceremony of just a few minutes, and had asked people to light candles in their homes, or wherever they happened to be.
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People hold candles in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, also known as Free Square, to mark the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Taipei, June 4, 2020. Credit: AFP
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"Overturn the June 4 verdict!" the participants chanted, referring to the ruling Chinese Communist Party's insistence that the 1989 student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square had been a "counterrevolutionary rebellion."
Protesters also chanted: "End one-party rule!" and "Democracy in China now!"
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Some people chanted a slogan associated with last year's anti-extradition movement: "Free Hong Kong! Revolution now!"
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said the date has been effectively erased from the calendar in China.
"There once many days that were lost to the calendar in Taiwan too," Tsai wrote on her Facebook page, in a reference to the island's authoritarian past and its struggle for democracy. "But we got them all back, one by one."
"Now we can face the future together, because we don't have to hide what happened in the past."
Tsai's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has presided over a "transitional justice" program to heal wounds from the then ruling Kuomintang's dictatorial days.
"Free Taiwan supports Hong Kong's freedom," Tsai wrote.
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