The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC) held its annual June 4 commemorative activity to clean the “Pillar of National Mourning” at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus this evening in an apprehensive atmosphere, as it was the first time that the HKASPDMC has cleaned the monument since the National Security Law came into effect and the University of Hong Kong recovered the right to manage the student union facilities. The event. At the event, the Alliance condemned the University and the Student Union’s act of cutting the memorial, called on the University to immediately withdraw the decision to cut the memorial, and expected the University to respect the memorial and not remove it while respecting freedom and history.
“The “Pillar of National Gothic” has been permanently placed on the campus of the University of Hong Kong since 1998, and the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASDC) will scrub the monument every year before the anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. The fate of the “Pillar of Mourning” is in doubt. The Vice President of the Association, Zou Xingtong, said that before the start of the event still do not know whether it will be obstructed. The security guards at the scene have increased significantly, but did not prevent the event from taking place. After the moment of silence, HKASPDMC Vice Chairman Albert Ho continued to lead the audience in chanting the five platforms of the organization, including “ending one-party dictatorship”, which is considered by the pro-establishment camp as a possible violation of the National Security Law; in addition, the organization also chanted “vindication of the 1989 pro-democracy movement”, despite the fact that the history of the Chinese Party has recently changed the characterization of the 1989 incident as a “one-party dictatorship”. In addition, the organization has called for the “vindication of the 1989 pro-democracy movement,” even though Chinese Party history has recently changed the characterization of the 1989 incident as a “counter-revolutionary disturbance.
“The June Fourth Incident was once referred to by the Chinese Communist Party as the “political storm at the turn of spring and summer,” the “June Fourth Incident,” and the “counter-revolutionary turmoil. “But Albert Ho said it was a massacre, and that the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to take advantage of the 100th anniversary to play down history would not succeed.
He also said that the “Pillar of National Mourning” is the University of Hong Kong student union commitment to permanently placed on campus, but not only the assets of the student union, it has symbolic significance, marking the University’s embrace of freedom of expression, if the University respects freedom and history, natural will also respect this monument.
Zou Xingtong also said that he expects Hong Kong people to continue to commemorate the June 4 incident, even if the regime defines “candlelight is guilty” due to the national security law, the Alliance will still insist, expecting people to light candles together with domestic and foreign people and prisoners of conscience to mourn the June 4 incident. Before the police officially refused to allow the organization to hold a candlelight memorial service on June 4, the organization still aimed to hold a physical memorial event.
The Pillar of National Mourning was created by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt, and features a number of distorted figures with painful faces, symbolizing the dead and injured in the bloody crackdown on June 4.
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