Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen’s 25th Anniversary
More than 180,000 people gathered in downtown Hong Kong on Wednesday for a candlelight vigil to commemorate those who died 25 years ago when People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops brought a bloody end to weeks of student-led mass democracy protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Photos: RFA/Cantonese service
Young students join in the memorial event at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2014.
Hong Kong citizens join the memorial event, June 4, 2014.
More than 180,000 citizens in Hong Kong came to Victoria Park to participate in the annual June 4 candlelight vigil.
Wu’er Kaixi, a student leader in the June 4 protests in 1989, participates in a memorial event in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 4, 2014.
Lee Cheuk-yan, Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, speak to journalists at the memorial event in Hong Kong, June 4, 2014.
A father brings his daughter to visit the Hong Kong June 4 Museum.
Participants speak at the June 4 memorial event in Hong Kong.
The Student Union of Hong Kong reproduced several banners that students carried in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Lee Cheuk-yan, Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, speak at the June 4 memorial event in Hong Kong.
Cheung Siu Yan, Student Union President at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, burns the memorial book during the June 4 memorial event in Hong Kong.
More than 180,000 citizens in Hong Kong came to Victoria Park to participate in the annual June 4 candlelight vigil.