(3 Jun 1997) T/I: 10:05:58 GS 10:27:23
A giant sculpture was erected in Hong Kong on Tuesday (3/6) on the eve of a mass candlelit vigil to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in defiance of Beijing's disapproval of such protests.
With just 28 days to go before Hong Kong is handed over to China, the lofty copper sculpture, featuring 50 bodies and anguished faces piled on top of each other, was erected by Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot at Victoria Park ahead of a planned commemoration rally on Wednesday.
SHOWS:
VICTORIA PARK, HONG KONG, 3/06
VS "Pillar of Shame" statue removed from van;
statue lowered to ground;
SOT Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot(in english): "Because it's the 4th of June, I want to make a memory about the Tiananmen square. All the students that were massacred in Tiananmen - to make a symbol of that, dont forget it, to remember that";
VS statue moved by crane;
CU faces carved into pillar;
MS statue moved by crane;
CU statue faces;
SOT Lee Sheuk Yan, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist (in english): "Those twisted faces is like a big outcry of the anger and the cry for justice of those who were sacrificed for Tiananmen Square in June 1989."
CU faces on statue;
WS Jens Galschiot supervising operation;
CU inscriptions reading in English "The old cannot kill the young forever";
Base of statue put in place;
WS Jens Galschiot adjusts top of statue;
CU Glaschiot;
cutaway onlookers;
MS sculpture secured,
applause;
WS Galschiot down ladder;
MS sculpture;
CU faces;
WS sculpture in park, people milling.
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