Posted on 10/08/2021 9:10:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The University of Hong Kong has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
The 8-metre-high (26ft) copper statue was the centrepiece of Hong Kong’s candlelit vigils on 4 June to commemorate those killed when Chinese troops backed by tanks opened fire on unarmed pro-democracy campaigners in Beijing.
The statue, called the Pillar of Shame, shows 50 anguished faces and tortured bodies piled on one another, and has been on display at Hong Kong’s oldest university for more than two decades.
The decision was blasted by the statue’s Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt, who said its removal illustrated the ongoing purge of dissent in the once outspoken and semi-autonomous business hub.
In a legal letter to the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance (HKA) – the organiser of the city’s huge annual Tiananmen vigil – the university demanded the group “immediately … make arrangements for the sculpture to be removed from the university’s premises” by 5pm on 13 October.
“If you fail to remove the sculpture … it will be deemed abandoned,” the letter said.
It added that the university will deal with the statue in a manner it sees fit without further notice. The university said its request was “based on the latest risk assessment and legal advice”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
What happened in Tiananmen Square? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hong Kong, another addition to Red China’s list of their “Captive Nations”.
@ KC_lion
Nothing happened...just a bunch of CIA running dog students with nothing better to do who got turned into hamburger meat by some tanks /s
Government removing statues. Thank goodness nothing like that could happen in a free country like the USA.
Don’t forget the peaceful protests against white supremacy in the summer of 2020
Hoisting the white flag in 3...2...1...
Some people did something.
/s
maybe one of hong kong’s sister cities will erect a replica...
There IS a Satan and he hates God's personal creation,
(God spoke everything onto existence except man .... God used His Own Hands to create man AND woman)
... and is trying to destroy man by destroying man's history .... ESPECIALLY scriptural, biblical history.
(did y'all forget about "Palestinians" tearing up Europe's many, many ancient spiritual artifacts ... including (never proven, but suspected, Notre Dame)
Maybe they could send it to Taiwan? Just kidding, they will make copper pots out of it. That work of art has a shelf life of a banana in China.
I’d buy it for a dollar, but shipping costs and delays would bankrupt me.
I searched for more stories on this, and found a headline from the Financial Times saying this:
“Hong Kong university hires US law firm to seek Tiananmen statue’s removal”
There’s no free access whatsoever to the Times, though, so I found a CNN article that mentions the firm’s role:
“The University of Hong Kong will remove the famous “Pillar of Shame” sculpture memorializing victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre from its campus, a letter written by its legal team said Friday.
“The letter came from Mayer Brown LLP — a London-based international law firm acting on behalf of the university — and stated the statue had to be removed “before 5 pm on 13 October 2021,” or it would be deemed “abandoned” and dealt with in “such a manner” that the university sees fit.”
They don’t have lawyers in Hong Kong?
I looked up that firm. It is headquartered in the U.S. (Chicago), but has international offices around the world. One is in Hong Kong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Brown
Ah! Got it.
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