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In news– Recently, Hong Kong removed the Tiananmen memorial, Pillar of Shame from the University of Hong Kong.

About the memorial-

  • The 8-meter (26-foot)-tall sculpture was constructed in memory of the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
  • It is made of bronze, copper and concrete. 
  • Danish Sculptor Jens Galschioet had gifted the statue to the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China.
  • The Tiananmen massacre, in which hundreds and possibly thousands were killed, was a pivotal moment at which a divided Communist Party leadership decided to suppress the democracy movement rather than allow it to grow. 
  • The statue shows 50 bodies with anguish-ridden faces piled up together commemorating unarmed student protestors who had been protesting since mid-April in 1989 against corruption, unemployment, inflation, etc., and were killed as Chinese troops opened fire on them. 
  • These bodies symbolize the devaluation of the individual, and the sculpture expresses the pain and despair of what happened. 
  • It was erected in Hong Kong in 1997 during an annual candlelight vigil to commemorate the event. 
  • The text at the base of the sculpture reads, “The old cannot kill the young” in English and Chinese. 
  • Hong Kong was a British colony and not part of China in 1989. 
  • After its return to China in 1997, it was given partial democracy, with some of its legislature but not the city’s leader chosen by popular vote. 
  • Demands for greater democracy sparked massive protests in 2014 and 2019.

Other Pillars of Shame-

  • They are designed to remind people of events to ensure they don’t happen again.
  • Ostiense Air Terminal, Rome, Italy, 1996, during the FAO Summit, depicting the deaths caused worldwide by hunger due to the uneven distribution of the world’s resources.
  • Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico in 1999, to mark the site of the December 1997 massacre of 45 members of the civil society group Las Abejas.
  • Brasilia, Brazil in 2000 in homage to the victims of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre which occurred in 1996. 
  • A fourth Pillar of Shame was planned in Berlin, Germany, in homage to the victims of the Nazi regime but due to various problems, the artist had to cancel the project.
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