Data show the extent to which repression has grown
Hong Kong held the world’s biggest vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. As many as 180,000 people would gather to light candles in Victoria Park to remember June 4th 1989, when China’s army brought a bloody end to weeks of peaceful pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Hong Kong’s vigils became a symbol of defiance of mainland authority and an ardent evocation of the city’s independence. “It was magnificent,” says one resident.
Organising such a vigil would be unthinkable now. The commemoration was banned in 2020, ostensibly because of covid-19. Some 20,000 people gathered anyway. The following month the central government in Beijing imposed a draconian national-security law on the territory, a response to large pro-democracy protests in 2019. The authorities have since snuffed out memories of Tiananmen. Memorials have been removed.
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