Hong Kong protestors remember Tiananmen crackdown

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters demanded today that the Chinese government exonerates the participants in pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that it brutally suppressed 21 years ago.

The Chinese government still considers the 1989 protests a “counter-revolutionary riot”, and public discussion of the student movement is taboo. But the military crackdown, which killed at least hundreds, is mourned openly every year in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese territory that is promised Western-style civil liberties.