International Chinese People's Demonstration Day
28th May, 1989 (Sun)
"The world is with you."
About a hundred thousand people on foot and on bicycles marched through the capital to demand more democracy and the resignation of Li Peng. Police and soldiers made no move to interfere. The protest was part of an "International Chinese People's Demonstration Day" to put pressure on the government . The demonstrators paraded along fie different routes for maximum exposure to the city's residents.
In another discussion, student leaders and representatives voted against the proposal to evacuate the Square. They decided to maintain pressure on the government by staying in the Square until a meeting of the NPC Standing Committee on June 20.
Other demonstrations responding to the "International Chinese People's Demonstration Day" were held in Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States. In Hong Kong, the protest draw a crowd of 1.5 million, the largest ever protest in the then British colony.
Exhibition Pack on the Tiananmen Massacre 
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Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China