Twenty six years ago, the Chinese military cracked down on protesters occupying the old imperial grounds in central Beijing. The crackdown resulted in a high death toll and consequently earned the incident its name, the "Tiananmen Square Massacre". Its been noted that this was the first student led Chinese pro-democracy movement. We explore the impact of the tragic incident on Chinese diasporic communities in countries like Taiwan and Malaysia as well as on contemporary Hong Kong politics.

This is a report by Wong Yu Han.  

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Tags:  joshua wong,  zhao zi yang,  hu yao bang,  26th anniversary,  tiananmen square massacre,  june fourth incident,  china,  umbrella revolution,  hong kong,  malaysia,  leong kwok hung,  democracy