By Douglas F. Roberts and P. J. McNeal, The Chicago Times
December 24, 2021
HONG KONG — On the order of the Chinese Communist Party, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and other universities, will be required to remove memorials to the brutal and bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Massacre.
According to an unnamed source at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the CCP ordered the removal of the “Goddess of Democracy” that memorialized those killed on the orders of the CCP during the pro-democracy crackdown. In an official statement, the University said the removal was for safety concerns and claimed the monument was not “officially” sanctioned by the University.
Ever since the bloody events of 1989, the CCP has attempted to erase the massacre from history and suppress any pro-democracy movements challenging the CCP’s one-party rule. With final suppression of democracy in Hong Kong, a former British colony, the CCP hopes to put to death any thoughts of political freedom, other than to be free to follow the dictates of the CCP.
Thus, Thursday saw the removal of Hong Kong’s last symbol commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. The CCP refuses to release the number of demonstrators killed during the protest and the crackdown that followed. The public is banned from discussing or even acknowledging the massacre. Only in the semi-autonomous territories of Hong Kong and Macao saw annual commemorations of the massacre, until the CCP recently banned the ceremonies. Many believe the censorship is not out of shame, but the fear of what it represents, a call for freedom.
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