Hong Kong authorities have banned the annual Tiananmen Square massacre commemoration this year. But some are determined to remember — and resist.
The pastor wept, holding a candle amid tens of thousands of strangers, as he heard his friend’s name spoken for the first time in 20 years.. He had been too afraid to go in 2008 and was still worried about being seen and reported to mainland authorities.All those years, the pastor — who asked that his name not be used for protection from authorities — had never uttered those syllables.
Beijing’s universities hummed with ideals. China’s economic reforms had come with inflation, inequality and official corruption; young students were determined to root it out. They formed alliances with workers and took to the streets, demanding accountability and change.The Communist Party responded with military force, including a protester defiantly staring down a tank in an image that startled the world.
That same emphasis on dignity motivates the Rev. Chu Yiu-Ming, 76, a pastor and longtime pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong. “We were in deep pain. We saw the people covered with blood, the students stained with bright blood, pulled on wooden carts. Our whole family was weeping,” Chu said. “I saw this and I prayed: God, what can I do? Here in Hong Kong, what can we do?”
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