‘Pillar of Shame’ Tiananmen memorial erected outside European Parliament | CNN
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A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” which was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of “forbidden art” that organizers said had been censored or “deemed subversive” by Hong Kong and mainland China.

The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschiøt, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the European Parliament (MEP). A further six MEPs, including representatives from each of the parliament’s five largest political coalitions, were listed as co-hosts.

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    8 months ago

    @branchial

    Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989?

    No-one knows for sure how many people were killed.

    At the end of June 1989, the Chinese government said 200 civilians and several dozen security personnel had died.

    Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to many thousands.

    In 2017, newly released UK documents revealed that a diplomatic cable from then British Ambassador to China, Sir Alan Donald, had said that 10,000 had died.

    Discussion of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square is highly sensitive in China.

    Posts relating to the massacres are regularly removed from the internet, tightly controlled by the government.

    So, for a younger generation who didn’t live through the protests, there is little awareness about what happened.