Amazon Quiz: Recently removed, which sculpture stood at the University of Hong Kong memorializing the victims of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square?
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Answer: Pillar of Shame
The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre victims were memorialised and honoured by Jens Galschit in the sculpture “Pillar of Shame,” which was removed from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) last December after standing there for almost 25 years.
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To commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989, a copper sculpture was first placed in Victoria Park in 1997. To represent those who died in the government crackdown, the statue shows 50 mangled bodies.
The words “The Tiananmen Incident,” “June 4th 1989,” and “The elderly cannot slaughter the young forever” are carved into and inscribed onto the base of the statue along with the history and images of the massacre.
The Pillar was initially shown at the Candlelight Vigil on June 3, 1997, to mark the demonstrations’ eighth anniversary. After the candlelight vigil on June 4, 1997, local university students struggled to find a location for the statue’s permanent home.
At 3 a.m., students at the University of Hong Kong succeeded in moving the 2-ton statue onto the podium of the Haking Wong Building following altercations with the police and disagreements with the university administration.
However, the pieces were not assembled due to worries that the floor was not sturdy enough. On June 16th, 1997, the pillar was raised once more in the same location.
