Hong Kong's famous Tiananmen Square 'Pillar of Shame' statue removed from university

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Hong Kong's famous Tiananmen Square 'Pillar of Shame' statue removed from university

Hong Kong's famous Tiananmen Square 'Pillar of Shame' statue removed from university

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Published 23 Dec 2021

For more than 20 years the "Pillar of Shame" sculpture stood as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which the Chinese military crushed protests led by college...

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