Vancouver candlelight vigil shifted to accommodate more people in the past 2 years
Activists in Canada say Hong Kong’s crackdown on commemorations of the Tiananmen Square massacre has injected new vigour and significance to vigils in diaspora communities.
Hong Kong was for decades the worldwide centre of June 4 commemorations, with crowds sometimes exceeding 100,000 at an annual vigil before organizers disbanded in 2021 as the government stamped out public displays of opposition. “I briefly talked about it ,” Tung said. “She just came a year ago. She said in Hong Kong she never went to any of the candlelight vigils in Victoria Park, but she started last year to come to our candlelight vigil.
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