Some members of Canada's Chinese diaspora are feeling the pressure to carry the torch as Hong Kong's renowned vigil commemorating the June 4, 1989, massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square falls silent.
Sunday marks the 34th anniversary of China's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, in which tanks rolled into the heart of Beijing and hundreds, and possibly thousands, of people were killed.
The Hong Kong vigil organizers' vote to disband in 2021 — spurred by enforcement of the Chinese government's law that suppresses public displays of opposition — has driven many overseas Chinese communities to step up their own efforts, including here in Canada. The location of David Lam Park, an urban, waterfront park similar to Victoria Park, was chosen in part to echo the spirit of the Hong Kong protests.
"In a way, Hong Kong has now become a police state right before our eyes," Ng said. "The very fabric of a civil society, a proud tradition of a rule-of-law system has now been decimated," Ng said. Vancouver activist Thekla Lit, president of the British Columbia Association for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia, recently visited Taipei and said the responsibility to increase awareness of the June 4 event felt by the diaspora in Canada is echoed in other major cities with large overseas Chinese communities.
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