Hong Kong commemorates Tiananmen, Beijing doesn't

Hong Kong was the place where, last night, tens of thousands of people gathered to hold a candlelight vigil to comemorate the passing of 25 years since the bloddy massacre in Tiananmen Square, when armed forces killed thousands as they shot their way through the crowds on the way to the square.

In Beijing Tiananmen's Square, however, no one except police kept vigil, no signs of any comemoration being visible.

On the contrary, it becomes more obvious that the opposite was sought for as government increased police forces in the square, prohibited media to talk about the events and even wiped the Internet clean of any mention of the 1989 bloody event.

One Chinese man participating at the Hong Kong comemoration event said that: 'I hope one day in China citizens will truly have the freedom to demonstrate.'