China silences Hong Kong again and prohibits the commemoration of the Tiananmen crackdown for the third consecutive year – CVVNEWS

For 30 years, the night of June 4 has become a very special evening for Hong Kong. In that night, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Victoria Park with candles and white flowers to remember the peaceful protesters killed by the Chinese government on that fateful morning in 1989 in Tiananmen. Since 1997, the year in which the former British colony was “returned” to China, it was the only place within the borders of the People’s Republic where the massacre could be publicly commemorated. Remembrance was tolerated on a large scale in the semi-autonomous territory, until two years ago,…