More than 150,000 people turned out to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre at a vigil in Hong Kong Monday night organized to honor the 30th anniversary of a deadly, public crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government.
Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China sponsors the event, which takes place yearly. But this year, the vigil had special meaning. It has been exactly 30 years since that bloody day, when the Chinese government sent military forces, including a battalion of tanks, to quash a student uprising that was capturing the world’s attention.
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