Live From Hong Kong | Tiananmen Square Anniversary 2023 | Hong Kong Remember Massacre Victims Live

Live From Hong Kong | Tiananmen Square Anniversary 2023 | Hong Kong Remember Massacre Victims Live Live from Hong Kong where security is tight for the day marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. This is the first anniversary since COVID restrictions were lifted. Before the pandemic, tens of thousands gathered annually in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, lighting candles and singing songs to remember the victims. But authorities, citing the coronavirus pandemic, have banned the vigil for the past two years. Hong Kongers living overseas are helping to keep the flame of remembrance alive for the victims of China’s Tiananmen massacre as authorities in a city that once hosted huge annual vigils continue to stamp out dissent. Until recently Hong Kong was the only place within China where large-scale gatherings each June 4 were tolerated to remember the moment in 1989 when the Communist Party sent tanks in to violently quell peaceful student-led democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.