Tiananmen Square massacre – June 4th

Lest we forget.

About 600 people marched silently from a Hong Kong park to government headquarters to mark the 19th anniversary of China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

But organisers faced the delicate task of not appearing insensitive at a time when China is mourning the deaths of more than 69,000 people from last month’s earthquake in Sichuan province.

The marchers carried banners that honoured the quake victims, as well as the victims of the 1989 military crackdown, in which hundreds were killed. …

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