On June 4 1989, peaceful protests in the Tiananmen Square by thousands of students, workers and intellectuals against the Chinese leadership were brutally crushed by force leaving hundreds dead. To this day, the strict censorship of social media and press in China, acted especially to obliterate the Tiananmen massacre from the public memory, have made it impossible to search or gain credible information about one of the most historic events of state violence in Mainland China. On the 25th anniversary of the protests and the ensuing massacre, there were thousands of protesters in Hong Kong who mourned the deaths of their counterparts in 1989. This time, the protesters used the power of social media to spread the word and in anticipation of
