CHINA ⋅ Another university in Hong Kong wants to banish a statue from its campus in memory of the victims of the bloody suppression of the democracy movement in China in 1989, according to a report.
As the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday, the City University student association is looking for an alternative location for the “deity of democracy” after being asked by the university administration to remove the statue.
Previously, three universities in Hong Kong had had similar monuments removed in the past few days. First, Hong Kong University had the eight-meter-high “Pillar of Shame”, by the Danish artist Jens Galschit, dismantled and transported away. Shortly afterwards, the Chinese University and Lingnan University also removed a statue and a wall painting.
Beijing’s works of art have long been a thorn in the side of the victims of the massacre in 1989, as they have erased any memory of the military operation against the Tian’anmen movement in the People’s Republic. A year and a half ago, China passed a controversial security law for its special administrative region, which practically eliminated the opposition movement in the seven million metropolis. It is vaguely directed against activities that China sees as subversive, separatist, terrorist or conspiratorial – and thus targets critics of the Hong Kong government and the Chinese leadership. (sda / dpa)
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