{"id":55780,"date":"2023-06-05T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/torches-and-t-shirts-hongkongers-held-over-tiananmen-commemorations"},"modified":"2023-06-05T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:34:42","slug":"torches-and-t-shirts-hongkongers-defy-attempts-to-forget-tiananmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55780","title":{"rendered":"Torches and T-shirts: Hongkongers defy attempts to forget Tiananmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual vigil replaced by pro-Beijing carnival but some still manage to mark massacre amid heavy police presence<\/p>\n<p>For the past three years, Hong Kong authorities have gone to great lengths to stop people from lighting candles in Victoria Park and publicly commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre \u2013 an annual tradition tens of thousands of residents had kept alive for three decades since the bloody crackdown in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/04\/hong-kong-police-arrest-pro-democracy-activist-alexandra-wong-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary\">took it a step further<\/a>. On Sunday, in place of a mass vigil was a patriotic carnival held by pro-Beijing groups, celebrating the city\u2019s return to Chinese rule with food booths, and dance and music performances. Colourful banners urged carnival goers to \u201ctaste the joy\u201d. Instead of candles, volunteers handed out plush toys.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/05\/torches-and-t-shirts-hongkongers-held-over-tiananmen-commemorations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual vigil replaced by pro-Beijing carnival but some still manage to mark massacre amid heavy police presenceFor the past three years, Hong Kong authorities have gone to great lengths to stop people from lighting candles in Victoria Park and publicly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55780\/revisions\/55781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}