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Albert Ho at the re-opening of June 4th Museum. Photo: May Tse

June 4 Museum reopens with exhibition of crackdown evidence

The June 4 Museum has reopened with an exhibition of artefacts from the Tiananmen crackdown, including a bullet that was only removed from a protester's thigh 19 years after the event.

The June 4 Museum has reopened with an exhibition of artefacts from the Tiananmen crackdown, including a bullet that was only removed from a protester's thigh 19 years after the event.

The exhibition, run by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, marks this year's start of its annual events to commemorate those who died in the pro-democracy movement in Beijing in 1989.

"The exhibition is solid proof of the bloody crackdown by the Communist regime," alliance chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan said in the 800 sq ft museum in Tsim Sha Tsui yesterday.

On the mainland, discussion of the Tiananmen crackdown is forbidden.

The display features a helmet with a bullet mark that belonged to Wang Nan, and his death certificate. They were donated by his mother. A highlight is a bullet lodged in a thigh of Zhang Jian, a marshal at Tiananmen Square during the protest. Now an exile in Paris, he only had the bullet removed from his leg in 2008.

The exhibition comes ahead of the alliance's annual candlelight vigil organised by the alliance on June 4.

Ho urged Beijing to set up a fact-finding commission to hold officials accountable, and overturn its previous verdict that the movement was a "counter-revolutionary riot".

Meanwhile, litigation by the owners' corporation of the building in which the museum is housed is continuing.

The corporation claims the museum breaches the land lease. A hearing on the case is scheduled next month.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: June 4 Museum reopens with artefacts
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