How did China allow this rally?
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Hong Kong photo essay: 180,000 rally to mark Tiananmen massacre anniversary
June 4, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly -- This photo essay by Tom Grundy, an activist-journalist based in Hong
Kong, shows the 180,000-strong candlelight rally held in Victoria Park,
Hong Kong on June 4 to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen
massacre in Beijing. Green Left Weekly republished it with permission from Hong Wrong blog.
The Goddess of Democracy statue.
The Hong Kong Alliance prepared 80,000 candles for the event, and quickly ran out.
While small demonstrations also took place in the mainland, Hong Kong
was the only part of China where rallies to commemorate the Tiananmen
massacre were tolerated by authorities.
Activist Fang Zheng, whose legs were crushed under a tank in Tiananmen
Square, became emotional as he laid a wreath for the dead.
180 000 gather against socialism in Hong Kong
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