Some 2,000 peple have attended the annual candlelight vigil in Taipei to
commemorate the events that unfolded in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

The candlelight vigil is organized by the New School for Democracy and other
human rights groups.

It took place once again at the plaza in front of the Chiang Kai-shek
Memorial Hall in Taipei under the theme of "Ideals are bullet-proof."

According to organizers, many of the participants were people from Hong Kong
who now live in Taiwan.

Human rights advocates from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and other countries gave
short speeches.

Among them was Chinese scholar and survivor of the 1989 massacre, Wu Ren-hua.

And he told participants that one of the reasons to commemorate the incident
in Taiwan is to ensure that young people here see the authoritarian and
brutal nature of the Chinese government.