ஹாங்காங்கில் டியனன்மேன் சதுக்கம் ஞாபகார்த்த ஊர்வலம்

1989இல் பெய்ஜிங்கில் டியனன்மென் சதுக்கத்தில் குழுமிய மாணவர்களை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் அரசு படுகொலை செய்தது.

ஹாங்காங்கில் அதன் நினைவார்த்த ஊர்வலம் நடந்தது.

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Hundreds march in HK to mark 1989 Beijing massacre
27 May 2007 09:25:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
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HONG KONG, May 27 (Reuters) - About 400 people marched in driving rain in Hong Kong on Sunday to protest Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown on a pro-democracy movement.

Huddled under a sea of umbrellas and holding banners and placards, the protesters also held a rally against a local politician's remarks this month denying the massacre.

"March for democracy in China," their banner read, while some carried photographs of those killed in the crackdown.

"Release political prisoners," the protesters shouted as they marched to the government headquarters.

A number of democracy activists and journalists gave their accounts of the massacre on June 4, 1989, when hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed when China's Communist leaders sent tanks and troops to crush the student-led protests.

One of the protesters said : "This is a deep wound in the heart. After that night, I lost my friends. I can't find them anymore."

Ma Lik, a top pro-Beijing Hong Kong politician, set off a furore in the city earlier this month when he denied that the massacre ever took place.

Ma, chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, also questioned how tanks could have crushed people into minced meat, asking facetiously whether the same had been tried on a pig before.

Although his party has since apologised for Ma's comments, they sparked anger in the city and was responsible for the high turnout on Sunday, some protesters said.

"We have Ma Lik to thank, so that we remember this," a woman at the rally told television reporters.

Hong Kong and the former Portugese enclave of Macau are the only places in China where people are allowed to commemorate those killed in 1989.

In the wake of the crackdown, the Chinese government condemned the protests as a counter-revolutionary rebellion, though it has never publicly accounted for those killed.