The 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre passed quietly in Beijing, where residents showed a preference for averting their eyes from the past and focusing instead on the present. Meanwhile in Hong Kong, around 180-thousand people chose to commemorate the massacre by holding a candlelight vigil, along with around 1,000 people in Taiwan.

Thumbnail Photo: A police car guards in front of a giant portrait of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in Beijing June 4, 2014. China deployed its vast security apparatus on Wednesday to snuff out commemoration of the suppression of pro-democracy protests around Tiananmen Square 25 years ago, flooding the streets with police as censors scrubbed the Internet clean of any mention of the crackdown. REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic

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