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"A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” which was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of “forbidden art” that organizers said had been censored or “deemed subversive” by Hong Kong and mainland China.

The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschiøt, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the European Parliament (MEP). A further six MEPs, including representatives from each of the parliament’s five largest political coalitions, were listed as co-hosts.

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"A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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"A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

edition.cnn.com /2024/03/20/style/pillar-of-shame-european-parliament-intl-hnk/index.html

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That's good, however it's again just symbolism. A real signal would be to begin cutting ties with China on a path to end our economical dependency on them.
Oh man, the tankies are out in force today, aren’t they?
If China didn't censor everything to do with something that totally didn't happen I'm sure they'd be very upset.
What about banning imports from any company that is using forced labour?
That statue could only be better if Winnie Pooh was sitting on top of it
Can we get one for Russia in 1993 during the black october too? Or is that different when tanks roll on people and bombard a building?
Virtue signaling from Europe while still supporting israel's Genocide and even inviting them to Eurovision.

Shamelessness knows no bounds.
Taiwan is not a country. Where are my social credits!?
Guys CBS, BBC and Daily Telegraph went tankie… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php

The Chinese government estimates more than 300 fatalities. Western estimates are somewhat higher. Many victims were shot by soldiers on stretches of Changan Jie, the Avenue of Eternal Peace, about a mile west of the square, and in scattered confrontations in other parts of the city, where, it should be added, a few soldiers were beaten or burned to death by angry workers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8057762.stm

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html

The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and released exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, partly confirm the Chinese government's account of the early hours of June 4, 1989, which has always insisted that soldiers did not massacre demonstrators inside Tiananmen Square
Maybe some are interested in that: https://eletees.com/product/tiananmen-square-china-1989-shirt
Meanwhile, Belgium has several monuments glorifying the colonization of congo but I couldn't find one dedicated to the victims of Léopold II's brutal colonial practices...
Is there also a pillar of shame for the genocide Belgians did in Congo?. Europeans love moralizing, but never like to think about their own sins.
lol? Brussels is a gang-infested shithole and this is what they spend money on?

Focus on sorting out our own cities and countries.
This place should be filled with monuments of stuff European countries did but yeah, China bad. Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, UK, nothing to see here
Does it have the names of all the soldiers that got horribly lynched by the mob?

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