On the eve of June 4th, the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), in response to the police’s request, sealed off Victoria Park one day earlier, including the football field, basketball court, central lawn and other areas. On the 33rd anniversary of the June 4th Incident, the Hong Kong police dispatched hundreds of police officers to step up patrols in the vicinity of Causeway Bay’s Chong Kwong Department Store and Victoria Park. Police officers were stationed at all entrances and exits of the park and closed facilities. A large number of police cars were parked in the Sugar Street area.
A group of mobile troops wearing stab-proof vests and neck guards patrolled around, intercepted and checked the identity cards of young people, and registered the information of the reporters present. Officers also searched the young man’s backpack.
Zhao Enlai, a former member of the standing committee of the disbanded stake, appeared at Paterson Street, Causeway Bay with two bouquets of red and white roses at about 3 pm. When he walked to the front of Sogo Department Store, he was surrounded by a large number of police officers for investigation. He was then taken to the MTR station and asked to leave Causeway Bay.
Zhao Enlai said: “The police accused my flower of inciting elements, told me to put it away, and then told me to leave, and told me to leave Causeway Bay. In fact, I was planning to leave.”
He explained that he was here to eat, not to mourn: “I don’t have any propaganda or anything related to the June 4th or the rally, but they were very nervous and questioned why I was holding flowers. There are six flowers in that color. Because there are bunches of flowers. Flowers may be involved in sedition rallies. I believe Hong Kong people have different feelings, but in short, after 33 years of this incident, everyone has not forgotten the tragic scenes, and everyone will mourn in their own way.”
Under the severe precautions of the police, there are still many Hong Kong people expressing their mourning for June 4 in different ways.
Mr. Liu, a citizen holding a white flower, said: “Just now he wanted to arrest me and told me not to talk nonsense and display slogans. Today is the day of mourning, there is no way to do it, if one person is to be suppressed, only the people of Hong Kong will keep silent and have condolences in their hearts. ”
He said that using white flowers to express his heart: “I am a kind of heart. Now I can’t do anything. I don’t dare to take the demonstration card. I can only use a bunch of flowers to express my determination to fight for democracy.”
A woman wearing a yellow top with “Come on Hong Kong” and a yellow mask appeared at the junction of Lee George Street, East Point Road, and handed out a stack of A4 white paper to passers-by, saying that the white paper represented blessings, but was immediately arrested by the police. She was brought into the “frisk area” by the police, and the police asked her to remove her hat, check her hair and register her personal information.
During the search, she continued to hand out blank papers to passers-by: “I don’t know what is wrong with mourning June 4th, but the problem is that I’m not here to mourn June 4th, I’m here to send my blessings, and I bless everyone in Hong Kong.”
A man wearing a green vest said that it is precisely because of the coercive measures of the authorities that he must come to Victoria Park today: “Everyone in Hong Kong is afraid, and Hong Kong has no hope.”
The man said that he was more worried that if young people were arrested and jailed, it would be troublesome, but it didn’t matter if he was older, so he called on older people to stand up: “There are hundreds of thousands of people in their lives, but now no one has come out and made no sense. Everyone has a piece of sky above their heads, not the regime will do whatever it wants.”
Regarding a sanctioned chief executive-designate, Li Jiachao, he said that he did not have any expectations: “To ask Li Jiachao to be the chief executive is to insult our Hong Kong people. It is worse than being raped. This is what Beijing wants to do to insult Hong Kong people. He is a military attache, a rotten boy, and a black police officer who framed the blame.”
A man wearing a black mask took a photo with the child at the entrance of Victoria Park, and was then warned by the police to leave. He emphasized that his father brought him to Victoria Park three years ago, and he brought his children to Victoria Park three years later to teach the children to tell the truth by the way.
Mr. Chen came to take pictures with candles: “The props I used for taking pictures, as well as candles. After so many years, we can’t let us mourn some people. What kind of government is this? He added: “What kind of government is this? I’m here to mourn. I’m not afraid of arrest. I’m a cancer patient, so I’ll do something for Hong Kong.”
In addition, some media discovered that a section of railing opposite Zhixing Building, the student dormitory of New Asia College, CUHK, hung a banner with a screenshot of “Why? Because this is my duty” from the BBC June 4 documentary. He was removed by campus security in the afternoon.
He Xiaoqing, an associate professor of the Department of History at CUHK, who taught the June 4th course at Harvard University and authored the book “Tiananmen Exiles: The Voice of China’s Democracy Struggle”, did not speak at the original site of the Statue of Democracy at CUHK. About five minutes later, two CUHK security guards arrived to take pictures of her and Bai Hua. Afterwards, many passersby stopped to watch the white flowers and took pictures.
