The June 4th slogan of HKU is covered

The University of Hong Kong sent workers Saturday to enclose a banner commemorating the death of The Communist Party of China. It was the latest in a series of moves by Hong Kong authorities to erase memories of the June 4 incident.

According to multiple media reports, more than a dozen construction workers wearing yellow hard hats used drills, hammers, high ladders, iron sheets and iron frames to set up two-meter-high hoardings and ice cream cones around the slogan, which was written on the Taikoo Bridge of Hong Kong University.

The slogan, 20 meters long and 20 words in total, reads: “The souls of the martyrs who slaughtered the city in cold blood are immortal, and we swear to destroy the democratic spark of the Wolf.” The slogan was allegedly written by Cheung Ruifai, chairman of Taikoo Hall student Association (Student Dormitory Management Committee) and other students after the 1989 crackdown on the June 4 student democracy movement in Beijing.
Each year, ahead of the Anniversary on June 4, HKU students and students from Taikoo Hall come here to paint the slogan. Therefore, the slogan has become an important symbol for HKU students to maintain the memory of June 4 and mourn the victims of June 4.
Hong Kong media quoted Wong Jingxuan, an undergraduate student representative on the university’s council, as saying that if the university removed the slogan, it would be “disrespectful to the people of the university who have inherited the spirit of the past” and that he would be “sorry and saddened”.
HKU authorities explained the closure of the May 4 slogan in an emailed statement on Saturday. The email said the university carried out “regular maintenance” on various facilities at different locations, and that Taikoo Bridge was one of the sites for “such works”.
However, it is clear to the outside world that the sealing of the slogan is part of the government’s plan to clean up the impact of June 4. Since the national Security Law took effect in June last year, the government has tried to erase the memory of the communist party in Hong Kong as it clamped down on the pro-democracy camp. The government first banned the city’s annual Candlelight rally on June 4, citing the epidemic, and then removed various commemorative signs from university campuses.
At the end of last year, the Statue of Democracy from the Campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong was removed, followed by the 64th relief sculpture from lingnan University’s campus. Last month, the “Pillar of Shame,” a statue that had stood on hkU’s campus for 24 years, was removed.