From the BBC:
"Tiananmen Square protest museum opens in Hong Kong"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27172041
"Tiananmen Square protest museum opens in Hong Kong"
The world's first museum dedicated to
the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square has opened in Hong
Kong. Organisers hope in particular to attract visitors from mainland China. The protests are still a taboo topic in mainland China but Hong Kong operates
under a more liberal legal system. June will see the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army's violent suppression
of the protests, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people. The new museum is in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong and has been
opened after years of planning and fundraising by pro-democracy activists. In the past few weeks, the museum itself has become controversial, the BBC's
Juliana Liu reports from Hong Kong. Other occupants of the same building want the museum shut down, citing safety
concerns, our correspondent adds. But the museum's backers believe these efforts are being orchestrated by
Communist Party officials. Beijing considers the weeks of peaceful protest by students and workers to
have been a "counter-revolutionary" revolt, and defends the decision to send in
tanks and troops to end it on 3-4 June 1989. The Chinese authorities have never provided an official death toll.
^ It makes sense for Hong Kong to open the museum there since it can't be opened in China itself. ^
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27172041
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