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Police patrol Hong Kong park to enforce Tiananmen vigil ban

Dozens of police officers patrolled Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities again banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. (Kin Cheung/AP)

HONG KONG — Heavy police force patrolled Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Saturday after authorities for a third consecutive year banned public commemoration of the anniversary of the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, with vigils overseas the only place marking the event.

For decades, Hong Kong and nearby Macao were the only places in China allowed to commemorate the violent suppression by army troops of student protesters demanding greater democracy in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. Hundreds, if not thousands, were killed.

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