Crowds pack Victoria Park in Hong Kong for a candlelit vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen massacre KIN CHEUNG/APChina warned its citizens against travel to America as tensions between the two powers rose on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre — heightened by a statement from the US secretary of state hailing the victims as “heroes”. In semi-autonomous Hong Kong tens of thousands of demonstrators held a candlelit vigil for the hundreds or even thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators killed in the Communist Party’s brutal crackdown in June 1989. Beijing, which has tried for decades to suppress any mention of the incident, criticised Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, for his “lunatic ravings and babbling nonsense” after he issued a statement at midnight on Monday urging “a full, public accounting of those killed or missing to give comfort to the many victims…

Source: The Times June 04, 2019 23:00 UTC