HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Police set uped barricades and protesters painted banners as organisers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil prepared for this year's rally.

HONG KONG (AFP) ??” Police set uped barricades and protesters painted banners as organisers of Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen vigil prepared for this year's rally, the barely event on Chinese soil to mark the 1989 massacre.

An estimated 60000 the community are expected to gather in the city's Victoria Park at 8:00 pm (1200 GMT) to light candles in memory of the centurys of pro-democracy student protesters gunn down in Beijing from Chinese troops 15 years ago.

This year's vigil is being characterised also as a memorial for the former British colony's democratic aspirations, which were crushed last month according to Chinese authorities in a hardline ruling criticised by means of many as interventionist.

The unaffectionate political climate that has followed has led organisers to suspect pro-Beijing forces may try to get to tarnish the normally peaceful occurrence by inciting violence.

"We have received no direct threats, if it were not that these ...