Two more universities in Hong Kong erased public artwork commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, mainly students, known as the Tiananmen Massacre. Just before dawn on Dec. 24, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) took down  a statue depicting a woman holding a flame. The 21-foot tall bronze sculpture, named “Goddess of Democracy,” is a replica of a 30-foot tall white plaster and foam statue erected by art students and brought to Tiananmen Square in 1989. Hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters were killed during the massacre under communist rule. In memory of the fallen, the Hong Kong statue stood on the CUHK campus for over a decade since 2010. Yet the university said on Dec. 24 that it was never approved. “The university never authorized the display of the statue on its campus, and no organization has claimed responsibility for its maintenance and management,” it said in …