天安門事件33周年

　香港でなら、先日までは無事に開催できていた追悼行事。今年はダメっぽいですねー、という記事。ろうそくをともして偲ぶ行事だったが、無許可で集まるのは禁止だよと言う指導がきて―警察は敵みたいだ、と言うことになった模様。

BBC Tiananmen: Six held in Hong Kong on anniversary of massacre 4 Jun 2022

「Six people have been arrested in Hong Kong as authorities moved to restrict public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Saturday was the 33rd anniversary of the highly sensitive incident in which China's rulers crushed peaceful protests with tanks and troops.

Until recently, Hong Kong was one of the few Chinese territories which commemorated the event.

But Beijing has effectively banned the city's annual public vigil.」

　ということで、6名ほど逮捕。うち女性1名。

「Hong Kong Police confirmed five men and one woman had been arrested in the vicinity of Victoria Park, where a candlelight vigil marking the 1989 crackdown in Beijing would have been held.

The six are now in police custody.」

　ろうそくをともすのは火事の危険があるよね！というわけで携帯電話の簡易ライトをつかっても―まあ、そりゃ、規制の本義からいったらそりゃ止められるわな。

「Officials earlier warned that any unauthorised assembly could see demonstrators facing prison sentences of up to five years.」

「Self-ruled Taiwan is one of the only parts of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be commemorated openly, and on Saturday hundreds of people gathered in the capital Taipei.」

　そんなわけで、中国語を話す地域としては天安門を偲ぶことが出来る唯一の地域、台湾について強調だってはいるわけなのだ。…これもウクライナ戦争の余波の一つと評価できるんだろうな。ただでさえ大陸中国に厳しい領域の問題で、さらに目が厳しくなるのは。