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...diplomat. "The authorities jailed or intimidated into silence almost all independent voices, and kept it that way. It gets worse around the time of 'sensitive' anniversaries like June 4 or when the National People's Congress is held, but basically it's a question of degree." (Read "Hong Kong Dissidents Get Organized...
Fredrik Fan Cheung-fung was born in Hong Kong in 1989. He did not witness the events of that restless summer; he never saw hunger strikes or tanks in the streets. But, he says, he inherited the legacy of the attack on student protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that left hundreds, if not thousands, dead. Twenty years after the crackdown, just shy of his 20th birthday, Fan embarked on a 64-hour fast of his own, setting up camp outside a busy shopping center in Hong Kong's Times Square, some 1,240 miles (2,000 km) from Beijing...
...paper plates. Old men stood, chatting, occasionally raising their fists in the air. In the middle of it all stood a miniature replica of a familiar statue, the Goddess of Democracy, which Chinese art students had built - and soldiers later toppled - in Beijing 20 years before. Beneath Hong Kong's Goddess lay flowers to commemorate Tiananmen's dead. (See pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising...
...Remembering Tiananmen Square is a task Hong Kong people take seriously. This is the only Chinese city where the incident is openly discussed and publicly remembered. In the summer of 1989, some 1 million people took to the city's streets in support of the students. They've honored them every year since. But remembrance is an amorphous term, especially here. The solemnity of recollection is tempered by anger and fear - anger that China has not acknowledged the incident, and fear that heavy-handed suppression is not a thing of the past. "What happened 20 years ago could happen again...
...20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre comes at a time when Hong Kong's own democracy movement feels threatened. Twelve years after its return to China, the city operates semiautonomously, enjoying a range of rights, but beholden, ultimately, to Beijing. Under a policy called "one country, two systems," residents elect half of their legislators, but Beijing appoints the territory's chief executive. (Read: "China Cracks Down Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary...