Post date: Jun 04, 2013 9:54:20 PM
R Reports - Candlelight illuminates faces in a crowd of tens of thousands in a rain-drenched Hong Kong park.
Dressed in black, they are there to remember the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
LEE CHEUK-YAN, LEGISLATOR AND CHAIRMAN OF HONG KONG ALLIANCE IN SUPPORT OF PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS:"We in Hong Kong had a voice for them. Voice for Tiananmen mothers, voice for the mainland compatriots who cannot memorize, cannot even commemorate June 4."
On June 3 and June 4, 1989, China's leaders ordered troops to open fire on demonstrators and sent in tanks to crush a student-led campaign movement, killing hundreds.
Marking the anniversary in Taiwan, hundreds of students wore masks calling forChina to release Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, a dissident involved in the 1989 protests who has been serving an 11-year sentence.
China has censored any mention of the anniversary on social media web sites.