{"id":553111,"date":"2021-06-04T19:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553111"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:06:21","slug":"hundreds-gather-in-hong-kong-to-remember-tiananmen-square-massacre-despite-government-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-gather-in-hong-kong-to-remember-tiananmen-square-massacre-despite-government-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Gather In Hong Kong To Remember Tiananmen Square Massacre Despite Government Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhundreds-gather-in-hong-kong-to-remember-tiananmen-square-massacre-despite-government-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/013601C0-7BF5-443C-9869-388F1F6C7A79_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite a government ban on the annual event to commemorate the lives lost in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, hundreds of people in Hong Kong still gathered to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last year, Hong Kong authorities banned the yearly vigil held at Victoria Park for the first time. As The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/01\/world\/asia\/Hong-kong-Tiananmen-vigil-banned.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> at the time, \u201cThe order cited the need to enforce social-distancing rules to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as the justification for the ban.\u201d The move came last summer as the Chinese Communist government took action to impose new security laws on Hong Kong that critics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-52765838\"><span class=\"s1\">decried<\/span><\/a> at the time as \u201cthe end of Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hong Kong police banned the vigil again this year allegedly because of coronavirus social distancing restrictions even though, as The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/asia-pacific-hong-kong-arrests-media-e0ab09dbd166881844d4424f5364fc66\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cthere have been no local cases in the semi-autonomous Chinese city for about six weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Law enforcement shut down parts of Victoria Park, where people have gathered to pay their respects in the past, and told people not to gather in \u201cunauthorized assemblies, which is illegal with punishment of \u2026 up to five years imprisonment,\u201d per the AP. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Hundreds of people still came together on Friday night, however, to walk near the park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The June 4, 1989, clash between demonstrators and the Chinese military resulted in hundreds, and potentially thousands, of protester deaths. \u201cChina\u2019s ruling Communist Party has never allowed public events on the mainland to mark the anniversary and security was increased at the Beijing square, with police checking pedestrians\u2019 IDs as tour buses shuttled Chinese tourists in and out,\u201d the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some took to social media to show the stark difference between the typical anniversary vigil held in the Hong Kong park over the years and now. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeromeTaylor\/status\/1400791730685845511\"><span class=\"s1\">Images<\/span><\/a> portrayed large crowds gathered together in 1990, 1999, 2004, 2011, and beyond, with the 2021 image showing a fairly empty area.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"15\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Powerful combo picture has just hit the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AFP<\/a> wire. <\/p>\n<p>Shows Tiananmen anniversary vigils in Hong Kong&#8217;s Victoria Park in 1990, 1999, 2004, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and\u2026 tonight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gf3Fpwtmdt\">pic.twitter.com\/Gf3Fpwtmdt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeromeTaylor\/status\/1400791730685845511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Edward Yeung, one of the people taking part in Friday night\u2019s event, used a lighter instead of a candle and said that officials are \u201cscared of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey\u2019re scared that people will remember all this. They want to wash it all away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The U.S. State Department issued a statement of support for remembrance of the massacre. \u201cThe courage of the brave individuals who stood shoulder-to-shoulder on June 4 reminds us that we must never stop seeking transparency on the events of that day, including a full accounting of all those killed, detained, or missing. The Tiananmen demonstrations are echoed in the struggle for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong, where a planned vigil to commemorate the massacre in Tiananmen Square was banned by local authorities,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It added, \u201cThe United States\u00a0will\u00a0continue to\u00a0stand with the people of China\u00a0as they\u00a0demand\u00a0that their government respect\u00a0universal human rights. We\u00a0honor\u00a0the sacrifices of those killed\u00a032 years ago, and the brave\u00a0activists who carry on their efforts today\u00a0in the face of\u00a0ongoing\u00a0government\u00a0repression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin reportedly denounced the statement as the United States intruding in China\u2019s own affairs and said the U.S. should \u201cfirst look at itself in a mirror and reflect on its own poor record in human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn what position can the U.S. lecture others on human rights?\u201d he said, reportedly referencing the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and U.S. activity in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a government ban on the annual event to commemorate the lives lost in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square Massacre, hundreds of people in Hong Kong still gathered to pay &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279286,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/013601C0-7BF5-443C-9869-388F1F6C7A79_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Hundreds Gather In Hong Kong To Remember Tiananmen Square Massacre Despite Government Ban","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/013601C0-7BF5-443C-9869-388F1F6C7A79_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Hundreds Gather In Hong Kong To Remember Tiananmen Square Massacre Despite Government Ban","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}