https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59764029
"A famous statue at the University of Hong Kong marking the Tiananmen
Square massacre was removed late on Wednesday.
The statue showed piled-up corpses to commemorate the hundreds -
possibly thousands - of pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese
authorities in 1989.
It was one of the few remaining public memorials in Hong Kong
commemorating the incident.
Its removal comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on
political dissent in Hong Kong.
The city used to be one of few places in China that allowed public
commemoration of the Tiananmen Square protests - a highly sensitive
topic in the country.
In 1989, Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for demonstrations
calling for greater political freedoms. Thousands of people camped for
weeks in the square, but in June the military moved in and troops opened
fire.
The Chinese government says 200 civilians and several dozen security
personnel died. Other estimates have ranged from hundreds to as many as
10,000."
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