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Tens of Thousands Mark Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Crackdown

HeadlineJun 05, 2012

Tens of thousands of people flooded a public park in Hong Kong on Monday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the crackdown in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, when Chinese forces crushed student protesters. On June 3 and 4, 1989, the Chinese military killed an untold numbers of unarmed civilians in Beijing and other cities after weeks of nonviolent protests.

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