Candlelight Vigil

5 June 2010 - Last night Hong Kong remembered the victims of the 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The annual candlelight vigil in Victoria Park attracted thousands of visitors, as many Hong Kongers still consider it a meaningful event. On Tuesday, it was reported that a mainland newspaper published a cartoon that showed a boy's drawing of a row tanks moving closer to a solitary figure. It was an apparent reference to the famous picture of a lone man holding up a convoy of tanks on a Beijing tanks (see the picture elsewhere on this blog). The cartoon was however immediately withdrawn from the newspapers' website, underlining the nervousness of the authorities over depictions of the Tiananmen events.