{"id":12886,"date":"2007-05-27T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/27\/tiananmen-crackdown-marked-in-hong-kong-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T13:48:35","slug":"tiananmen-crackdown-marked-in-hong-kong-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/05\/tiananmen-crackdown-marked-in-hong-kong-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Crackdown Marked in Hong Kong &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From AP, via The Age:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hundreds of people braved the rain and marched in downtown Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the bloody crackdown on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989\" target=\"_blank\">Tiananmen Square democracy protests<\/a> in Beijing 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators on this annual march called for the Tiananmen victims to be exonerated, and also condemned a leading pro-Beijing MP who argued the June 4 crackdown was not a massacre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ma_Lik\" target=\"_blank\">Ma Lik<\/a>, leader of one of Hong Kong&#8217;s biggest political parties, sparked outrage in this Chinese territory two weeks ago when he disputed witness accounts of the crackdown, saying troops did not fire indiscriminately at protesters. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/World\/Tiananmen-crackdown-marked-in-Hong-Kong\/2007\/05\/27\/1180205073369.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/asia\/articles\/2007\/05\/16\/lawmakers_comments_cause_uproar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawmaker&#8217;s comments cause uproar<\/a> by William Foreman, <a href=\"http:\/\/mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp\/international\/news\/20070518p2g00m0in004000c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victims&#8217; group slams Hong Kong lawmaker who denies Tiananmen Square massacre<\/a> by AP and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com.hk\/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=13&#038;art_id=44716&#038;sid=13665358&#038;con_type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Ma&#8217;s massacre denials draw fire from activists<\/a> by The Standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP, via The Age: Hundreds of people braved the rain and marched in downtown Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests in Beijing 18 years ago. 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