HONG KONG: Up to 200,000 people are expected to take part in a candle-lit vigil in Hong Kong Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the violent Tiananmen Square crackdown -- as China seeks to wipe the incident from memory.

Every year tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents congregate in the city's Victoria Park in a solemn ceremony to mark the events of June 3-4, 1989, when the military brutally crushed pro-democracy protests in central Beijing.

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