Hong Kong remembers crackdown
Hong Kong — Thousands of people streamed into a park in central Hong Kong on June 4 to mark the 26th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Hong Kong is the only location on Chinese soil to see a major commemoration, with residents gathering in Victoria Park to mark the military’s brutal crushing of pro-democracy protests in central Beijing in 1989.
Hundreds — by some estimates more than a thousand — died after the Communist Party sent tanks to crush demonstrations at the square in the heart of Beijing, where student-led protesters had staged a peaceful seven-week sit-in to demand democratic reforms. — AFP