dom 5 jun 2016, 7:36am
Celebration
Participants laid a wreath and held a minute of silence at the annual vigil.
Tens of thousands of people flocked to Victoria Park in Hong Kong on Saturday to remember the victims of China's military crackdown on 4 June 1989 against a massive pro-democracy student protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Participants laid a wreath and held a minute of silence at the annual vigil: the only large-scale public commemoration of the events on Chinese soil.
In Beijing, Authorities tightened security measures around Tiananmen, highlighting the sensitivity of the issue for the leadership of the ruling Communist Party.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people, died when tanks and soldiers converged on Beijing on the night of 3 al 4 June 1989.
Organizers in Hong Kong expected the attendance of 100 thousand people to Saturday night anniversary event 27 of repression, although the possibility of rain could have reduced attendance.
The vigil was organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China.
The group demands that Beijing overturn its verdict that the Tiananmen protests were a counterrevolutionary revolt.. It also calls for the replacement of the one-party dictatorship in China with a democracy.
Student groups in Hong Kong that have long been supporters of the vigil walked out this year over disagreements over its goals..
Memory
While absolute silence was maintained in mainland China, In the administrative region thousands commemorated the military repression.
Repression
Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, died when tanks and soldiers converged on Beijing on the night of 3 al 4 June 1989.
