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Museum shining a light on June 4

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Most mainland tourists head to Hong Kong for the shops, but a few are venturing away from the malls to see something they won't find at home.

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They are heading to a museum commemorating the emergence and subsequent suppression of the pro-democracy movement that swept the mainland 23 years ago.

The museum, organised by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, is in a 1,000 sq ft first-floor flat in Yu Chau Street, Sham Shui Po.

It remains the only institution in China commemorating the June 4 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.

One visitor was a Beijing student who gave her name as Selina. 'I think the truth should be made known,' she said. 'Many people outside Beijing don't know what happened.'

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She was born in 1989 and was previously sceptical about the cause advocated by the students. Her parents told her the crackdown brought chaos to the capital, leaving them unable even to buy milk for her.

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