Hong Kong Struggles to Keep Memory of Tiananmen Massacre Alive-Voice of America

HONG KONG — Twenty-seven years is a long time to keep the flame alive for a memorial event, especially one for a massacre that took place more than 1,000 miles away.
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The sheer size of the Hong Kong event is still impressive, though numbers have fallen in recent years. Most people under the age of 35 have no direct memories of the 1989 crackdown.
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“Many Hong Kongers who participate in the June 4 vigil every year hold onto the fantasy of a democratic China. They hope that the communist regime will eventually be inspired to recognize democracy, and to admit their responsibility,” the Hong Kong University Students' Union said in a Chinese-language Facebook post. “This is no longer realistic. After several recent incidents showing the disparity between Hong Kong and China, it is important for us to admit that, so long as the communist regime remains, there will likely not be democracy in China.”
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“If, after 20-odd years, we don’t keep talking about this in Hong Kong, then nobody will talk about it anywhere,” Tsoi said. “For younger people, there is no primary memory of this. They only know what they are taught.”

We will lose; we have lost. We, all those, wherever we may be, who wish to Never Forget, will lose this fight to keep remembrance of Tiananmen alive in China. It will live abroad, only abroad, and for all time.