HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kongers are planning to hold a candlelight vigil night to mark the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square protests.
The annual event on Thursday night takes on greater meaning for the city’s young after last autumn’s pro-democracy demonstrations sharpened their sense of unease with Beijing.
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For the first time in the event’s quarter-century history, some student groups won’t be taking part and will instead hold their own memorials.
It’s a sign of the emerging rift between young and old over Hong Kong identity that took root during the Occupy Central protests.
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The vigil is the only large-scale public commemoration of the victims on Chinese soil.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of unarmed protesters and onlookers were killed when tanks and soldiers entered central Beijing on June 3-4, 1989.
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