And a candlelight vigil was held last night in Hong Kong to remember those killed by the Chinese military after pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. Last month’s devastating earthquake in Sichuan province also weighed on the minds of event organizers. This is Lee Cheuk Yan of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China.

Lee Cheuk Yan: “Today we are mourning for those who sacrificed for democracy nineteen years ago. And also, we also mourn for those who died in the earthquake disaster. And when we look at the earthquake, of course it’s a natural disaster, but also there’s an element of man-made mistake. Look at all the schools collapsing. They should not have collapsed.”