Commemorations were also held in the former UK colony of Hong Kong and Portugalโs former territory of Macao, both of which returned to Chinese sovereignty in the late 1990s.
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This clip shows students at the University of Hong Kong gathering around the Pillar of Shame, an 8-meter sculpture built in 1997 to commemorate the Tiananmen Square protests.
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