{"id":108062,"date":"2021-12-23T07:31:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108062"},"modified":"2021-12-23T06:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T11:35:31","slug":"bbc-pillar-of-shame-hong-kongs-tiananmen-square-statue-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108062","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Pillar of Shame: Hong Kong&#8217;s Tiananmen Square statue removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate the hundreds &#8211; possibly thousands &#8211; of pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the few remaining public memorials in Hong Kong commemorating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Its removal comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on political dissent in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The city used to be one of few places in China that allowed public commemoration of the Tiananmen Square protests &#8211; a highly sensitive topic in the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59764029\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hong Kong&#39;s Tiananmen Square statue removed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wn3t0i1iYx\">https:\/\/t.co\/wn3t0i1iYx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1473842321124962309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday. The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate the hundreds &#8211; possibly thousands &#8211; of pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108062\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,502,168,144,133,335,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-china","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-hong-kong","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108062"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108066,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108062\/revisions\/108066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}