On April 15, 1989, following the death of Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a memorial held by students in Tiananmen Square quickly escalated into the largest democratic movement in Chinese history. From the night of June 3 to the early hours of June 4, CCP troops committed a ...
Perversely, the new regime in Hong Kong banned all traditional public commemorations of the June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre. Nevertheless, the brave people of Hong Kong remain defiant and continue to hold their own candlelight vigils and commemorations. The Hong Kong government banned the 32nd anniversary of the June 4 commemoration arranged by the Hong ...
Why have Hong Kong people persisted in mourning June 4th for 32 years? Yuan Gongyi, a Hong Kong industrialist, said that the entire human race shares a universal value, and the maintenance of this value makes no distinction between races and national boundaries. Universal values have no borders or race Yuan Gongyi pointed out: “Anyone ...
Julian O’Halloran was a BBC reporter in China covering the events around June 4, 1989, commonly known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. O’Halloran was among those foreign journalists who managed to cover the student-led mass pro-democracy protests held in the Square since April that year. The communist regime imposed martial law in late May. Not ...
The Tiananmen Square Massacre took place on June 4, 1989. It was the culmination of the Chinese government’s crackdown on protests for political and economic reform in China. In 1989, on the day of the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a martyr for the political cause, thousands of students gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand democratic ...
Crowds gathered in semi-autonomous Hong Kong to remember the victims of China’s Tiananmen Square Massacre (the June 4th incident) of 1989 and fight against authoritarian rule. Tens of thousands have been coming together at Victoria Park since the 1990s, with their central message being the democratization of China. The organizers, the Hong Kong Alliance in ...
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