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Jun 5, 2010
Remembering Tiananmen

TOURIST throngs and kite-flyers milled around Tiananmen Square on Friday under the watchful eye of security forces on alert for any attempt to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations. In the semi-autonomous Chinese territory Hong Kong, thousands attended a candlelight vigil on Friday.

China's government has never fully disclosed what happened when the military crushed the weeks-long, student-led protests on the night of June 3-4, 1989, possibly killing thousands of students, activists and ordinary citizens. It has long maintained that the protests were a 'counterrevolutionary riot.' Public discussion of the events or any displays referencing them remain forbidden on the mainland. -- AP

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Tens of thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Friday, to mark the 21st anniversary of the June 4th Chinese military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. -- AP


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Thousands of people raise candles during a candlelight vigil. -- AP


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People raise candles during a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park. -- AP

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A supporter of the victims, protesters of the 1989 Chinese government crackdown in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, holds candlelight vigil in front of a slogan 'Don't Forget June 4th' to commemorate the 21st anniversary. -- AP



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Supporters of the victims hold candlelight vigil to commemorate the 21st anniversary. -- AP



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A man holds a leaflet featuring the Goddess of Democracy during a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Friday. -- AP

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A replica of the Goddess of Democracy is moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong after a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong. -- REUTERS


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A replica of the Goddess of Democracy is displayed as protesters take part in a candlelight vigil. -- REUTERS


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Protesters take part in a candlelight vigil at Hong Kong's Victoria Park June 4, 2010 to mark the 21st anniversary of the military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. -- REUTERS

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Flashback... 1989

Remembering The Tank Man





But rest assured, all these were propagandas perpetrated by western powers
to break the rise of China, Human rights was at the distant third in the equations. #2 was the the disbursment of spheres of influence. First World's capitalism at work, wickedly... And they lost...