Hong Kong’s Universities Have Fallen. There May Be No Turning Back
For nearly a quarter of a century, the Pillar of Shame has stood on the campus of Hong Kong University — a 26-foot-tall commemoration of the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Last month, the university ordered the pillar’s removal.
The order is a striking blow in the government’s ongoing campaign to erase the memory of the 1989 atrocity: First, it banned the candlelight vigil held annually on June 4, arrested the vigil’s key organizers and raided a museum that documents the history of the massacre. But this is about far more than a statue.
Along with the removal of the Pillar of Shame, political pressure from the government and university administrations has incapacitated two major university student unions.… Seguir leyendo »