TIANANMEN MASSACRE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
LEST WE FORGET
The June 4th Tiananmen Massacre is a violent and bloody part of history the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to erase. It is a heavily censored topic in China, so most of its citizens have no clue that this bloodbath, committed by their own government, ever occurred.
It was a series of student-led protests in 1989 that resulted in the People's Liberation Army's (China's military) forceful suppression and crackdown using tanks and armed troops. Hundreds were dead and thousands were injured in their fight for political and economic reforms, for individual freedoms and rights.
Annual candlelight vigils were held in Hong Kong to commemorate these freedom fighters who gave their life in the 1989 crackdown, but growing government suppression accompanied each of these vigils with every passing year.
The organizer of the vigil - Hong Kong Alliance - was forced to disband after HK enacted the National Security Law (NSL). The organizers of the vigil were all arrested, some were even charged with subversion under the NSL. Other pro-democracy leaders and activists have also been arrested for participating in what was now deemed "an unlawful assembly".