Hong Kong Is Erasing the Tiananmen Square Massacre

A gruesome sculpture rises from a courtyard at the University of Hong Kong. It depicts dozens of human bodies contorted in agony, some with mouths open in silent screams, some skeletal and apparently motionless. The public university has demanded that this work of art be removed by 5 p.m. Wednesday (5 a.m. Eastern in the U.S.)—an ultimatum Hong Kongers find more horrifying than the statue's grisly presence. The sculpture, "The Pillar of Shame," memorializes the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Its creator, Danish artist Jens Galschià¸t, calls the work "an overt accusation of the old men's regime in…