Since the enactment of the National Security Law, Tiananmen-related statues have been removed from universities and books about the event have been pulled off public library shelves. “I could only vow to myself: devote my whole life to China’s democracy.” “After the crackdown, I wondered what we could still do in Hong Kong,” he said. When he heard sounds of gunshots on TV, he said, it was saddening and infuriating. Tsoi, who was in college during the 1989 democracy movement, said the protests gave him hope for the future of China. The Tiananmen crackdown left a deep mark on a generation of liberal-minded Chinese people. “Over some 30 years, we carried on our work in a struggle of memory against forgetting,” said Tsoi, who wore a black T-shirt with the slogan “The people will never forget.” “Now, maybe we will have to think about how to keep this message from being drowned out in Hong Kong.”Īsked whether it is legal to mourn the crackdown in public as an individual, Hong Kong leader John Lee said that if anyone breaks the law, “of course the police will have to take action.” This year, the 55-year old says he has not decided what he’ll do on Sunday. In previous years, Richard Tsoi, a former vigil organizer, would have been having a busy week, preparing for the event and coordinating with police. As authorities erase reminders of the massacre, some Hong Kongers are fighting to keep memories alive by distributing LED candles, writing about the crackdown, or buying books about it. As the government arrested activists, publishers and opposition politicians under the sweeping 2020 National Security Law, public shows of opposition have mostly vanished.
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