Opened in April by the Alliance in Support of Patriot Democratic Movements in China, this is the first museum in the world dedicated to the memory of the Tienanmen massacre. Lawmaker Lee Cho-Qian is co-chair of the alliance, "We hope that the artifacts can really help in getting the feeling across, the emotion across, to those who visit this museum so that they really can understand what happened and will continue struggle for democracy and human rights in China."
The Chinese government forbids discussion of the Tienanmen crackdown but, Lee says, some of Hong Kong's thirty million annual tourists from mainland China are now visiting the museum to learn more. "Of course, China will not even allow on the Net, the two words 'June 4th' or 'Tienanmen Square Massacre'. Never. Then this can be really a focal point where the mainland tourists can-- mainlanders can understand what happened on June 4th."
The museum is just the latest example of Hong Kong's unique ties to the June 4th movement, an involvement that goes back to 1989. This week the Six-Four theater company performs a play called "Yellow Bird". In the days after the Tienanmen crackdown, Hong Kong activists helped smuggle students out of Beijing, through Hong Kong, and into the United States and Canada. The secret program was code named "Operation Yellow Bird". It ran for eight years, until 1997.
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