Police crackdown on Tiananmen checkpoints in Hong Kong


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HONG KONG ( Associated Press) – Heavy police forces patrolled Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Saturday, after authorities banned public commemorations of the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 for the third year in a row, to mark the event. Was the only place overseas. For decades, Hong Kong and nearby Macao were the only places in China allowed to celebrate the violent repression by military troops of student protesters demanding more democracy in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed. The ban is seen as a move to address political...