Taipei, June 5 -- Around 3,000 people gathered in Taipei on Tuesday evening to mark the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre with a candlelight vigil organised by the New School for Democracy and other human rights groups. The event, held outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, carried the theme "Resist Transnational Repression, Defy Totalitarianism."

Participants, many of whom are Hong Kongers now living in Taiwan, stood silently in the rain, holding electronic candles. At around 8:30pm, they observed 64 seconds of silence to honour those killed during the brutal crackdown by Chinese authorities on June 4, 1989, in Beijing.

Wu Renhua, a Chinese academic and survivor of the massacre, spoke at the event. Recalling th...