Massive Crowds Turn Out at Hong Kong to Remember the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Image courtesy of Etan Liam's Flickr page - 6  4th June 2017 , Victoria Park, Hong Kong: https://www.flickr.com/photos/etanliam/35912406026/in/photolist-WHst9f-u9Ky7P-26wnmgv-27PwtPA-tcz57y-259dWTu-2g3BWKi-2g3BRns-2g3BRe6-2g3BQSK-2g3BQnw-2g3BPB8-2g3BJ6R-2g3BHRH-2g3BNHV-2g3BNk5-2g3BN7p-2g3BCeQ-2g3BC2W-2g3BFZm-2g3BFPm-2g3BLPV-2g3BB1T-2g3BFaA-2g3BAsJ-2g3BKN6-2g3BEjT-2g3BzHN-2g3BJQe-2g3BJJN-2g3BDky-2g3BJpQ-2g3BD7H-2g3ByBu-2g3BJ87-A3ccQ-A3ciK-27TWzWn-2g3BJ3c-2g3BHVt-2g3BycM-2g3By5Y-2g3BHqF-2g3BC71-2g3BxzE-2g3BBLX-2g3BGRV-2g3BBwt-2g3BBc5-2g3Bwu3

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The Chinese government has gone to rather extraordinary lengths to hide away efforts to remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which took place on June 3rd - 4th, 1989. Apparently, they feel that the reckoning by the Chinese government crackdown on the peaceful protesters might come at a cost, and undermine their own authority, even though three decades have now passed.

However, some people are remembering this event. There was a large crowd estimated at roughly 180,000 people who gathered at Victoria Park, near Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigil, for the anniversary.

It is not a story that the Chinese government wants to get out, not surprisingly. Yet, it is nevertheless encouraging that some people still remember what was crushed, and the possibilities that were ended with the Chinese government's bloody crackdown. 

Massive crowds at Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil on 30th anniversary Organisers said 180,000 were in Victoria Park to commemorate the 1989 crackdown, as territory faces pressure from China. published by Al Jazeera, June 4, 2019:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/massive-crowds-hong-kong-tiananmen-vigil-30th-anniversary-190604151636763.html