Plans to build palace museum in Hong Kong unwelcome / 引發六四事件聯想 港地鐵故宮壁惹議　　　　　　　　　　

In Hong Kong, the special administration region's government earlier approved a plan to build it's own palace museum in West Kowloon, however public opinion was not consulted prior to the approval. Now, Hong Kong's democratic activists are lambasting the project as a waste of budget and a reminder of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Over 50 members of Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement of China shouted slogans and marched inside the subway Central Station where a large advertisement for the Hong Kong Palace Museum was posted. They were protesting to Hong Kong Government for spending NT$661 million equivalent on a large advertisement in the West Kowloon Cultural District. The Alliance members were wearing headbands reminiscent of the ones worn by pro-democracy student protesters at the Tiananmen Square in 1989. ==LEE CHEUK-YAN, H.K. ASPDMC== For us, when we look at this palace museum, what reminds us is not what is inside but what happened outside in '89 when tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square when the army, the people of the army opened fire on its own people. Protesters criticized Hong Kong government's plan to construct a Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District without public consultation. The Alliance aims to use this place to host activities to remind people what happened at the Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 4, 1989. ==LEE CHEUK-YAN, , H.K. ASPDMC== In this case, the people in Hong Kong are angry because there's no proper consultation. We are not angry about the cultural treasure, but we are angry about the whole process. Last June, Hong Kong Government commissioned the museum design deal to Carrie Lam who is Hong Kong's Chief Secretary and will run for Hong Kong Chief Executive election this year. Demonstrators accused Lam for violating the ethics on conflict of interest. Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said his support to the museum construction in the West Kowloon Cultural District. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN 高喊釋放劉曉波等口號，大約50名香港支聯會成員，9號下午在港鐵中環站的大型北京故宮海報前，抗議香港政府以折合約661萬台幣的公帑，製作這幅大型故宮海報，替西九文化區準備興建的故宮文化博物館做宣傳。支聯會重現八九民運場景，痛批北京故宮讓人聯想到血腥的天安門大屠殺。 ==香港支聯會主席 李卓人== 對我們而言 當我們看著北京故宮 我想到的不是裡面的文物 而是在外面所發生的八九民運事件 當坦克開進天安門廣場 當軍隊 人民解放軍向自己的人民開槍 支聯會強調，港府在沒有徵詢市民意見的情況下，擅自計畫在西九文化區興建故宮文化博物館，如果西九區的故宮館完工，將成為他們要求平反六四真相的最佳抗議地點。 ==香港支聯會主席 李卓人== 香港民眾感到憤怒 因為沒有適當的諮詢 我們不是對文化瑰寶感到憤怒 而是對整個程序感到氣憤 事實上，港府去年六月就已自行委任建築師設計故宮文化博物館，更有議員向廉政公署檢舉，有意參選特首的政務司長林鄭月娥私相授受，涉嫌瀆職。而香港特首梁振英表態力挺西九文化區興建故宮館。 記者 靳元慶 報導