Chinese makes lemonade...
Each year beginning in 1990, demonstrators in Hong Kong have gathered in Victoria Park to commemorate the deaths of the Tianamen Square protestors at the hands of the Chinese government and People's Liberation Army. (BTW, Hong Kong is the only place on Chinese soil where the deaths are publically remembered.)
Numbers of demonstrators have ranged from 25,000 to several hundreds of thousands over teh years depending on what repressive measure Beijing was putting in place at the time.
This year was no different. 35-40,000 people showed up at the annual rally. This year the demonstrators added words of sympathy to the people affected by the Sichuan earthquakes.
For once mainland Chinese media covered the demonstration but failed to mention the reason the demonstration was organized in the first place. They just focussed on the earthquake.
Why am I not surprised at the underhanded nature of reporting by the state-run media?
All the pictures below are the usual Tiananmen Square memorial shots.
CCTV reported the 40,000 mourners in Hong Kong for June 4th as for the earthquake victims...
Please see the sites below for comparison:
中央台cctv 奧運網報導燭光晚會
http://sports.cctv.com/20080605/105378.shtml
http://sports.cctv.com/20080605/105378_1.shtml
香港四萬市民燭光晚會哀悼地震遇難同胞(圖)
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香港四万市民烛光晚会哀悼地震遇难同胞(图)
-->CCTV.com 2008年06月05日 15:09 进入复兴论坛 来源：网易
[内容速览] 6月4日晚，许多香港市民来到维多利亚公园参加哀悼四川地震遇难者的烛光晚会。
烛光在黑夜里无声地表达港人对同胞的哀思和美好的心愿。
零星小雨阻挡不了香港人的热情和真诚。
這并不是海洋的全貌，据主办方现场统计，參与烛光晚会超过48000人，占据了整整五个足球場。
该次烛光晚会历时约2小时，有朗诵、歌曲、默哀、向烈士纪念碑献花等环节，现场筹得所有捐款将由主办方连夜清点后交予香港红十字会，支援四川地震灾区重建。
责编：谷晴
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