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Dear
I send this mail in memory of the massacre on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. It is forbidden to mention the massacre in China and each year fewer yet know what really happened. But all media articles, fliers etc. have been collected by the democracy movement in Hong Kong and can be downloaded for free here. I send you this mail and all the documents, so that you can help giving the Chinese their story back.
In 1997 I erected an 8 meter high monument in Hong Kong. This monument is an artistic call on the situation in China and is so far still the only memorial about the massacre on Chinese soil.
In relation to the 27th anniversary of the massacre, I enclose this appeal, and hope that you will pass it on to your Chinese friends, institutions and others who might benefit from remembering this landmark event.
Placing this sculpture in Hong Kong cost me a permanent expulsion of China and 2 expulsions of Hong Kong. I think it's important that artists, cultural groups and others defend the human rights and that we use our freedom of speech to tell the story of the massacre. I hope that you will help doing this.
Kind regards Jens Galschiøt  The Chinese sight for ”The old cannot kill the young forever” chiseled into the socket on the memorial.
Press release june 2016 Appeal to the press, culture- and art institutions, artists, working places, libraries, universities and others.
Give the Chinese students their history back!
Help mark the 27rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. In 1989 the Chinese students occupied the Tiananmen Square in Beijing for months in an attempt to press the Chinese government to take steps towards democracy and to fight against corruption. But on 4th June 1989 the regime threw in the army against the unarmed students.
Give the Chinese their story back. It is forbidden to mention the story in China, but all the students’ newspaper articles, fliers etc. have been collected by the democracy movement in Hong Kong. These collections of Chinese and English documents have now been put on the Internet from where they can be downloaded for free.
Many of the young dissidents were imprisoned in the wake of the crackdown. Some are still in jail but they are no longer young. China still practises a massive censorship on information on the massacre. And it is impossible for Chinese people to obtain uncensored information about the event. In China the encroachments continue. The imprisonment of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is maintained and his wife is still under house arrest. So is the artist Ai Weiwei. But these prominent artists are only the tip of the iceberg, there are thousands of artists, environment activists and others imprisoned. And all they have done is defend the most basic human rights.
Thousands of Chinese students are today studying at universities and other institutions of education in the West. Most of them do not even know their own history due to the censorship. You can help to remedy this.
Therefore we invite all pro-democracy institutions, scholars and working colleagues to download and print out this documentation or burn it on a CD. Place it on the shelves of libraries and hand it out as a gift to Chinese students on 4th June, the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. This way we can make a contribution to preserve the memory of the victims and maybe inspire a new generation of Chinese to see democracy as a possibility for China. We call on everybody to support this initiative and to mail this appeal to other institutions of education where there are Chinese students or others who might be interested in preserving and distributing the knowledge about the Tiananmen massacre.
The initiative of this appeal and informative campaign is a co-operation between the democracy movement in Hong Kong and Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot who in 1997 put up an 8 meter high Pillar of Shame in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre. Hong Kong is the only place on Chinese soil where the victims can be honoured.
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