HONG KONG, May 30 — For the first time in 33 years, church services to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown will not be held in Hong Kong, erasing one of the last reminders of...
HONG KONG, May 30 — For the first time in 33 years, church services to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown will not be held in Hong Kong, erasing one of the last reminders of China’s bloody suppression of the 1989 protests.
In the space of months, decades of commemoration have been wiped out as authorities wield the law to refashion Hong Kong in Beijing’s authoritarian image. For others, much like the organisers of the masses, uncertainty over where the new red lines fall has been enough to make them pull back. At Lingnan University, a wall relief by artist Chen Weiming was banished to an underground storage room.
The universities said they had never consented to the statues’ presence, and that their removal was based on an assessment of legal risk.Where the Goddess used to stand, only a faint mark from her square pedestal can now be seen.“This is the meaning... after a few years nobody knows what happened there,” the sculptor Galschiot told AFP.
Instead, the space for remembering the crackdown now lies outside Hong Kong, with exiled dissidents setting up their own museums in the United States and activists planning to resurrect the Pillar of Shame in Taiwan.
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