Tiananmen statue from the University of Hong Kong from campus

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong elementary school has disposed of a statue on its campus that for more than two decades commemorates pro-democracy protesters killed in China's Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, Reuters witnesses said. The artwork, of anguished human torsos, is one of the few public monuments left in the former British colony to the bloody repression that is a taboo subject in mainland China, where it cannot be publicly commemorated. The University of Hong Kong Council (HKU) said on Thursday, December 23, that it had taken the resolution to remove the statue at an assembly on…