The tradition of Hong Kong University students re-painting the June 4 slogan of the Taikoo Bridge every year is very likely to be difficult to carry on.
This morning (29th), the school erected a hoarding at Taikoo Bridge to cover the 20-character mourning slogan "The heroic souls of the cold-blooded martyrs are immortal, swear to annihilate the jackals and the spark of democracy will never be extinguished".
The slogan is that after the "pillar of national mourning" that was demolished before Christmas, only the June 4 totem of the University of Hong Kong still exists. written later.
In the past, at least six universities in Hong Kong have displayed sculptures and other totems to mourn June 4th. Less than two days after the "Pillar of National Mourning" was demolished, CUHK and Lingnan almost simultaneously removed the "Goddess of Democracy" on Christmas Eve overnight. As for the "June 4th Relief", the encirclement of Taikoo Bridge this time is the fourth such action in more than a month.
When Zhang Ruihui, who wrote these 20 words, pointed out that "the bloodthirsty jackal will not change to vegetarianism" when he was inquired by "Hong Kong 01", he criticized that the "hawk dog in the guise of a scholar" continued to execute as the regime "cleansing history". Task".
He said that the use of a hoarding to shovel away the handwriting further demonstrated that the action was "sneaky, shameless and not visible"; even if the real object was washed away, the memory would not be washed away.
Taikoo Bridge is located opposite Taikoo Hall of Hong Kong University. The June 4 incident in 1989 was suppressed by the Beijing authorities. Zhang Ruihui, chairman of Taikoo Hall Student Association, and other Hong Kong students wrote a 20-character mourning slogan on a black cloth, condemning the massacre of Beijing, and the handwriting passed through the black cloth. On the bridge, the school then tried to wash away the words on the Taikoo Bridge, which was finally preserved with the efforts of Hong Kong teachers and students.
Since then, every year on the eve of June 4th, Hong Kong University students and Taikoo Hall residents will repaint these 20 characters, not only to mourn, but also to inherit and remember this history.
Zhang Ruihui said that "the pillar of national mourning was dismembered", and he had foreseen that the June 4 elegiac couplet of Taikoo Bridge "couldn't survive under the fangs." After that, Hong Kong University students filled in the ink every year, and the school has never obstructed it for 32 years, so that the elegiac couplet has survived to this day, and it is the only thing that publicly records the history of the June 4 massacre.
He criticized the leadership of the University of Hong Kong, headed by President Zhang Xiang, for "becoming a totalitarian lackey."
He said that since 1989, Hong Kong people have refused to forget and persist in mourning. Whether it is the candlelight in Victoria Park or the repainting of elegiac couplets, they have witnessed and participated in "witnessing the facts." Even if tyranny is intimidated, everyone can continue to tell history and inherit the truth. , be held accountable.
He quoted the students who wrote the elegiac couplet together that day as saying, "The Taikoo Bridge has been branded by Zhifan for 33 years. I mourn our Hong Kong University for abandoning Mingde and slaughter the city in cold blood."
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