#BREAKING Hong Kong's Victoria Park empty for first time in 32 years on Tiananmen anniversary
#UPDATE A Hong Kong park that traditionally hosts huge vigils on the anniversary of China's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown lay empty for the first time late Friday as police blocked access
#UPDATE Hong Kong police threw cordons around Victoria Park, keeping crowds out and leaving the venue free of candle-carrying mourners for the first time in 32 years u.afp.com/U7C6
VIDEO: Huge crowds have routinely gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park to mark the anniversary of Chinese troops crushing peaceful democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.
But this year police blocked access to the park
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