Hong Kong June 4 activists call for end to ‘one-party dictatorship’ in China – using kites to get message out
About a dozen members of group that organises annual vigil in Hong Kong held small ceremony at Clear Water Bay Country Park
A kite with a slogan calling for an end to “one-party dictatorship” in China flew over Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district as pro-democracy activists held a ceremony on Sunday ahead of the annual June 4 vigil.
The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which has been organising the annual vigil to mark the Tiananmen Square crackdown since 1990, said it was expecting a crowd similar in size to last year’s event.
About a dozen members of the alliance held a small ceremony at Clear Water Bay Country Park in Sai Kung on Sunday afternoon.
They flew two kites with slogans. One slogan called on the public to commemorate the June 4 crackdown and fight authoritarian rule while the other read “End one-party dictatorship”.
The alliance explained that student activists who gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing during the 1989 pro-democracy movement had also flown kites to distract military helicopters.