180,000 CANDLES CAN’T BE WRONG
Jun. 5th, 2014 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogTwenty-five years ago Wednesday, Tiananmen Square happened. Every year since then, Hong Kong has held a candlelight vigil remembering the event.
Last night’s event set a new record.
There’s not much I can add that I haven’t said before. But the turnout number is notable for a couple of reasons:
1. A poll this week from Hong Kong University found that while the majority of people here think the students were right and the central govt was wrong, the number is slightly down from before, though HKU didn’t try to explain why.
2. Supposedly the boost in attendance was due to more people from mainland China attending. Which would be ironic since many HK locals have been complaining that too main mainlanders come here and buy up all our milk powder and give birth and stuff.
Common ground!
Never forget,
This is dF
Last night’s event set a new record.
There’s not much I can add that I haven’t said before. But the turnout number is notable for a couple of reasons:
1. A poll this week from Hong Kong University found that while the majority of people here think the students were right and the central govt was wrong, the number is slightly down from before, though HKU didn’t try to explain why.
2. Supposedly the boost in attendance was due to more people from mainland China attending. Which would be ironic since many HK locals have been complaining that too main mainlanders come here and buy up all our milk powder and give birth and stuff.
Common ground!
Never forget,
This is dF
