Hong Kong’s annual June 4 Tiananmen Square vigil is the only occasion on which so many citizens stand on Chinese soil and condemn its national leaders. This year, it stands canceled.
HONG KONG—Most years for the past three decades, the Rev. Youngman Chan has gathered with thousands of others in a Hong Kong park on June 4 to commemorate the students who died in 1989 while demanding democracy in China.
Holding a candle, he has listened and cried as exiled Chinese activists, democracy campaigners and politicians solemnly expressed outrage at China’s Communist Party leaders, demanding they atone for the gunning down of peaceful demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. At 8:09 p.m. each year, the crowd...
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