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Hong Kong June 4 Vigil Turnout Up From Last Year

Hong Kong’s annual candlelight vigil in commemoration of the lives lost in the crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 this year attracted 115,000 people–5,000 more than last year–according to organizers. The figure provided by local police, however, was 17,000, a slight decline from the official figure of 18,000 last year. Video clips from the vigil, shot and edited by the South China Morning Post’s Shanshan Kao, can be seen at Inkstone