Memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong campus

The University of Hong Kong removed a sculpture commemorating those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown from its campus in the early hours of Thursday, a symbolic move showing that the bloody event has become a taboo subject in the Chinese territory as in the rest of China.The university council cited safety issues resulting from the Pillar of Shame statue's "fragile" state as well as potential legal risks facing the university under the city's crime ordinance, adding the sculpture would be put into storage.The statue has stood on the university campus since 1999, after it was bro…READ FULL ARTICLE