(The story was first published on 4 June 2015 and has been republished to mark the anniversary of the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests.)
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers joined a candlelight vigil marking the crushing of the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests, an annual commemoration that takes on greater meaning for the city’s young after last autumn’s pro-democracy demonstrations sharpened their sense of unease with Beijing.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged China to disclose the details of people killed, detained or missing during the Tiananmen Square protests.
People across ages take part in the candlelight vigil to mark the 29th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong.(Photo: Reuters)
Hundreds, if not thousands, of unarmed protesters and onlookers were killed late on 3 June and the early hours of 4 June 1989, after China's Communist leaders ordered the military to retake Tiananmen Square from the student-led demonstrators.
Thousands of people take part in a candlelight vigil to mark the 29th anniversary of the crackdown of pro-democracy movement at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on 4 June 2018.(Photo: Reuters)
With candles in their hands, people at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, China remember the massacre that had taken place on 4 June 2018.(Photo: Reuters)
A little boy among several people attending a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong Thursday, 4 June 2015. (Photo: AP)
Here are some photos from the pro-democracy protests and government crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Hundreds of thousands of people fill Peking’s central Tiananmen Square on 17 May 1989 in front of the Monument to People’s Heroes and Mao’s mausoleum in the biggest popular upheaval in China since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s. (Photo: Reuters)
Residents of Beijing surround an army convoy of 4,000 soldiers on 20 May 1989 in a suburb of the city to prevent them from continuing to Tiananmen Square, where the pro-democracy students are. (Photo: Reuters)
A blood-covered protester holds a Chinese soldier’s helmet following violent clashes with military forces during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. (Photo: Reuters)
A military helicopter drops leaflets above Tiananmen Square on 22 May 1989, which state that the student protesters should leave the Square as soon as possible. (Photo: Reuters)
