Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong 180,000-Strong

Participants at the 180,000-strong Tiananmen Square Massacre Candlelight Vigil in Hong Kong hold up candles and posters, commemorating the victims, on June 4, 2012. Sung Pi Lung/The Epoch Times

Calls for democracy in China resounded at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park as more than 180,000 attended the yearly candlelight vigil in memory of the 1989 massacre of student protesters on Tiananmen Square. In the crowd were survivors, politicians, students, and residents from both Hong Kong and mainland China.

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Fang Zheng, a survivor whose legs were amputated after they were rolled over by a tank, attended the ceremony after traveling from the United States. Fang said that he was moved by the candles and that he understood that the people of Hong Kong had not forgotten what had happened on June 4, 1989. Fang was a student at the Beijing College of Physical Science, and became a champion at the 1992 All-China Disabled Athletic Games.