Students Set Up Street Booth To Recall June 4

The student union of Polytechnic University on Wednesday set up a street booth displaying materials from 1989 as their way of marking the upcoming 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre.

The university students have co-organised the campaign with the Federation of Social Work Students.

The booth, set up on a footbridge in Mong Kok, displays copies of newspaper clippings and photos of the 1989 Beijing crackdown that had been saved by students of the university at the time.

Union president Lam Wing-hang said he came across them recently as he was tidying up the union's facilities.

"In this booth, we are telling the truth of June 4th, 1989, and then we also want to tell people that only if we come out against the government, then that's the only light for our future," Lam said.

His union is among eight university student groups which are staying away from the annual vigil at Victoria Park which calls for the vindication of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and an end to one-party rule in China.

Lam explained that the organiser of the vigil, the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, is promoting a sense of patriotism, which his union disagrees with.