Live | LIVE BLOG: Tiananmen Square 25th anniversary vigil in Hong Kong
Follow the latest news as thousands gather in Victoria Park for a candlelight vigil to remember those killed in the bloody crackdown of June 4, 1989
It was 25 years ago today that the People's Liberation Army rolled into Tiananmen Square to end a student movement that had briefly raised hopes of democratic reform in the world's most populous nation. The event sent shockwaves around the world - not least in Hong Kong, which was eight years away from its handover from Britain to China.
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Since then, Hongkongers have marked the crackdown with a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park on June 4 - the only major public commemoration of the event on Chinese soil. Tonight's vigil, organised by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, is expected to be the biggest in years, and reporters will be on hand to bring you the latest from the park.
Events in the park begin at 8pm, when Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China's executive lay flowers for the victims and a torch is lit in the memory of the slain protesters.
