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

2014.06.05
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Young students join in the memorial event at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2014.

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Hong Kong citizens join the memorial event, June 4, 2014.

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More than 180,000 citizens in Hong Kong came to Victoria Park to participate in the annual June 4 candlelight vigil.

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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.

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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.

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A father brings his daughter to visit the Hong Kong June 4 Museum.

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Participants speak at the June 4 memorial event in Hong Kong.

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The Student Union of Hong Kong reproduced several banners that students carried in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

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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.

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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.

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More than 180,000 citizens in Hong Kong came to Victoria Park to participate in the annual June 4 candlelight vigil.

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