On 4th of June, there were more than 150,000 Hong Kong citizens gathered in and around the Victoria Park to commemorate the 20 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. The number of attendees has broken the record since 1990, telling the world that... ...full story at Global Voices
from Global Voices on Mon, Jun 08 2009
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As you may know yesterday was the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Well in Hong Kong 48,000 people gathered to remember the day and to mourn for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. Here's more.
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