Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled chief executive, John Lee, insisted on Thursday that his government should identify books with “bad ideologies” – such as those that tell the truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre – and remove them from public libraries.
that not only have books about Tiananmen Square been removed from libraries, but all mention of them has been deleted from online catalogs. Thethat documentaries made by Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK have also been removed.
Hong Kong once hosted the world’s largest and most moving vigils for the dead of Tiananmen, with thousands of candle-bearing mourners packing the city’s Victoria Park. The Chinese Communist PartyIn this June 4, 2015 file photo, people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong.
People chant slogans next to a “Pillar of Shame” during a vigil on the 33rd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and crackdown at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on June 4, 2022 .
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