Demonstrators Recall Chinese Crackdown

Mon., May 29, 1995

Compiled From Wire Services

More than 2,000 demonstrators sang songs and carried banners through Hong Kong’s streets Sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on China’s democracy movement.

Led by legislators and human rights activists, demonstrators gathered at a park in the Central business district before marching three miles to the Xinhua News Agency, China’s de facto embassy in the territory.

Lee Cheuk-yan, a protest spokesman, said the passions kindled among Hong Kong people in 1989 remain.

“In the last six years, they’ve not perceived any improvement in Chinese democracy,” he said. “Corruption is rampant in China. They worry Hong Kong may not keep its democracy.”

Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule in 1997, and many of the territory’s 6 million residents worry Beijing will reduce their freedom to assemble and express themselves.

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