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Facebook Whatsapp Telegram Nightmarish, with images of dozens of bodies and faces contorted in pain, Pillar of Shame towers some 8 meters (26 feet) over the campus of the University of Hong Kong. The less-than-subtle monument, like a scene from Tartarus, is meant to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre , in which hundreds, and by some estimates more than a thousand, pro-democracy protesters were killed by Chinese military violence. Now, after more than 20 years, the university wants the statue removed. The sculpture’s dan ish artist, Jens Galschiot, is shocked by the decision. Pillar of Shame has been on...
