Permanent museum for Tiananmen crackdown to open in Hong Kong

HONG KONG -- A museum is set to open in Hong Kong in April about the crackdown by Chinese authorities against student and civilian protesters in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989. The effort to create the museum took two years as an activist group in Hong Kong worked to secure a location.

    "This is the only permanent museum (about Tiananmen) under Chinese sovereignty," said Lee Cheuk-yan, chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. "It shows the value of Hong Kong in preserving historic truth and freedom."