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Dozens of police officers patrolled Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. For decades, an annual candlelight vigil was held in the park to remember the violent suppression by troops of student protesters demanding greater democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed. “To remember is to resist,” prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao told Reuters news agency from the United States. “If nobody remembers, the suffering of the people will never...
