Estimated 150,000 Call for Democracy in Hong Kong
AP:
— “in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, a crowd chanted slogans calling for Beijing to own up to the crackdown and release political dissidents. Organizers estimated its size at 150,000, while police put the number at 62,800.”
— “‘It is the dream of all Chinese people to have democracy!’ the throng sang.”
— “Hong Kong is one of the few places in China where the events of June 1989 are not off-limits, because the territory — returned by the British 12 years ago — operates under a separate political system that promises freedom of speech and other Western-style civil liberties.”
— “‘Hong Kong is China’s conscience,’ Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Cheung Man Kwong told the demonstration.”
— “In the candlelight, speakers recalled the terrifying events in Tiananmen, where a military assault killed hundreds who had gathered for weeks in the square to demonstrate for freedom and even erect a makeshift statue of liberty. Those killed were eulogized as heroes in the struggle for a democratic China, their names read aloud before the crowd observed a minute of silence.”
— “‘Hong Kong is the only place where we can commemorate, and we have to repeat this every year so our younger generations don’t forget,’ said Annie Chu, 36, a Hong Kong tourism worker who says she has attended every vigil for the last 20 years”

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