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China has long quashed any memory of the crackdown, when the Chinese government ordered in the army to end the months -long protests and uphold Communist rule.
An estimated 180,000 troops and armed police rolled in with tanks and armored vehicles, and fired into crowds trying to block them as they pushed toward the student-led demonstration on Tiananmen Square .
The event remains a sensitive and taboo subject that is heavily censored, with any mention on social media quickly erased.
Hong Kong’s leader John Lee did not answer directly when asked whether residents could still publicly mourn the crackdown.
Commemorative events have grown overseas in response to silencing of voices in Hong Kong .
Vigils were planned in Washington D.C. , London and Brisbane among other cities this year .
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