Hong Kong and China: June 4, 18 Years Later

For 18 years, Hong Kong people have been insisting to join the candle night vigil in Victoria Park in memory of June 4 Massacre in 1989. This year, probably more people would come out to rescue the history.

The controversy lies in the commentary of Ma Lik, the Chair person of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro China political party in Hong Kong. He tried to argue that June 4 is not a massacre in term of scale and that Hong Kong people need more patriot education to fasten the democratization process.

At the Eve of June 4 Eighteenth Year Memorial, Human Rights Watch issued a statement against China’s government’s failure to account for the massacre of June 4, 1989, which would eventually defy Olympic gloss.

Seechuen was surprised how quick and how much the truth had been distorted in the past few years. However, he still thanked Ma Lik so that June 4 photos could reappear in mainstream newspapers:

感謝馬力（當然還得感謝記者），又有機會在報章頭版看到這張圖片。

從八九到現在，我看到，是非真是可以被顛倒。時間、權力與金錢所能夠扭曲的，遠多於我的想像，也遠快於我的估量。

Horizon devoted this song (from youtube), with his collection of photos to the mothers who could not find their children in the Tiananmen Square:

Mininoise blogs about a song by Cui Jian, “The last gun shot”. He remembers the song because of this line: “Because my sickness is feeling nothing”.

我知道，
人會因為害怕太痛，把感覺隔絕起來；
用一堵圍牆，把它監禁。

感覺總又想逃獄，挑戰灰厚深牆。
可惡！
「你逃出來就算了，快給我滾！」

依吔依吔喊叫，
會是最好的止痛劑。

上星期起我把歌帶在身上，
從耳筒直插大腦沒天沒地的不斷重播。

其實，在最初的那幾年，
我已在慢慢地染上了一個病。
而且，一直沒有痊癒。

Duimanpark pointed out that Hong Kong people's attitude towards June 4 is out of genuine patriotism:

是的，八九年之前，勢利的香港人都不太願意承認自己是中國人，因為當時祖國代表窮與落後，縱使香港人心知要在九七年回到這位滿身泥濘的母親的身邊，香港人還是消極地逃避著。

八九年四月至六月，局劫動盪，這幾個月給數百萬香港人上了一課活生生的「國民教育」。香港人心中的頻率與中國接通了，領略到「血濃於水」四字的真諦，他們忽爾脫下銅臭的外衣，出錢出力地為那弱不禁風的民主幼苗悉心灌溉。

仍記得六四屠城之後的一兩天，我在中學校園與其他師生唱著「義勇軍進行曲」，這也是我首次認識這支歌。