(5 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Taipei, Taiwan – 4 June 2024
1. Wide of visitors placing electric candle lights on ground during Tiananmen vigil ++NIGHT SHOT++
2. Electric candles forming numbers 8964 referring to year and date of crackdown ++NIGHT SHOT++
3. Various of activists on stage during minute of silence ++NIGHT SHOTS++
4. Wide of art exhibition commemorating crackdown
5. Various of visitors viewing art pieces
6. Zoom out of painting of famous tank image
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kacey Wong, exiled Hong Kong artist living in Taiwan:
“Right now, globally in many many cities, people from all over the world are commemorating too. It is not about 1989 June 4th. It is about the spirit of the people yearning for freedom and democracy and that is what we are commemorating.”
8. Wide of person signing poster
9. Close of signing English reading "Free Hong Kong"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 4 June 2024
10. Various of Tiananmen June 4 vigil attendees holding candles++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Wide of crowd at vigil listening to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Mung Siu-tat speaking at vigil
12. Close of Mung saying UPSOUND (English): "The regime must bear the responsibility of the bloody repression and killing of innocent people. One day, history will judge them."
13. Chinese embassy across road from vigil
14. Various of attendees holding signs
STORYLINE:
Vigils were held in Taipei and London on Tuesday to commemorate the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
In a cordoned off area opposite the Chinese embassy in London, a crowd of around 300 people gathered with many holding candles or turning on their phone lights.
Attendees laid flowers and candles at the event in the capital Taipei, forming the numbers 8964 to represent June 4, 1989.
A minute’s silence was also held in memory of the victims.
At an art exhibition commemorating the crackdown, exiled Hong Kong artist Kacey Wong said the event held a global significance.
“It is not about June 4th, 1989. It is about the spirit of the people yearning for freedom and democracy and that is what we are commemorating,” he said.
The annual vigils held in Taiwan, a self-governing democratic island that China claims as its own territory, are strictly forbidden inside China.
Checkpoints and rows of police vehicles lined a major road leading to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Tuesday as China heightened security on the anniversary.
China has long quashed any memory of the crackdown, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule.
An estimated 180,000 troops and armed police rolled in with tanks and armoured vehicles, and fired into crowds trying to block them as they pushed toward the student-led demonstration on Tiananmen Square.
The death toll remains unknown to this day.
Hundreds, if not thousands are believed to have been killed in an operation that started the night before and ended on the morning of June 4, 1989.
AP video shot by: Johnson Lai and Tian Macleod Ji
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