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支持者月報 2021年2月號
六四記憶‧人權博物館工作月報2021.2
各位「六四記憶‧人權博物館」支持者，農曆新年好！
2021年初，我們收到一則令人惋惜的消息：1月8日，「六四」時任解放軍軍長徐勤先於石家莊離世，終年86歲。這位曾經拒絕執行戒嚴鎮壓任務的軍長，「寧殺頭也不做歷史罪人」，其存在展現出一種向極權說的勇氣與擔當，也提醒我們：「六四」並沒有過去，當親歷者一一離開，後來者更有責任繼續銘刻記憶。
拒絕執行指令的徐勤先，蒙受五年牢獄之災，晚年仍遭軟禁，這是極權年代的常態，但我們不能習以為常。曾被指控「反革命罪」遭受迫害的蘇聯詩人曼德爾施塔姆，在1937年大清洗運動時期寫下詩句：「當我鞠躬盡瘁，與世永遠別離——我活著時曾經和一切人友好——我要用我胸膛中所有元氣——把天堂的迴聲傳播得更深更廣！」「六四記憶 ‧人權博物館」的籌建，正是希望將先行者的迴聲記錄下來，傳播得更久、更遠。
過去一個月中，博物館籌劃小組延續資料收集、整理的基礎工作，也建立了更加明晰的館藏框架；博物館的視覺與網站功能設計亦進入了籌備階段，希望兩者結合，能為讀者展示一段「活的歷史」。此外，我們亦開始組構學術委員會的工作，希望能夠有更多「六四」研究學者給予專業意見，以致更完整、獨到地呈現「六四」記憶。
近月來，我們亦陸續收集到讀者提供的「六四」物件，很感謝各位的支持與參與。如果正在讀郵件的你，有個人收藏、參與研究過與1989中國學潮、民運相關的資料，或是保存過上述資料的機構代表，如果你願意將自己親歷或經手過的歷史資料，在網絡「六四」博物館備份存檔，永久保存，並作為連續脈絡的一部分開放給公眾閱覽，我們非常希望能夠與你合作收藏。請一定與我們聯絡：64.museum.online@protonmail.com。
如果有任何關於博物館的建議、意見、資源提供，也歡迎用以上電郵給我們寫信。
祝大家農曆新年快樂、安康
「六四記憶‧人權博物館
工作團隊上
2021.2.22
Monthly Bulletin, Feb 2021
Monthly Bulletin from the ‘June 4th Memory & Human Rights Museum’, Feb 2021
Dear supporter of the June 4th Memory & Human Rights Museum, Happy Lunar New Year!
At the beginning of 2021, we received a saddening news that the then PLA commander during the June 4th massacre, Xu Qinxian, has passed away at the age of 86 in Shijiazhuang on January 8th. Refusing to suppress the protests, Xu ‘would rather be killed than become an eternal sinner’, and showed his courage to stand up against totalitarianism. His passing reminds us: the June 4th massacre has not vanished; with the perishing of those who have witnessed the massacre, the burden on us to etch the memories only becomes heavier.
Xu was sentenced to five years imprisonment, and was under house arrest during his late years. This is a common story of totalitarianism, but we certainly should not take it as something normal. The Soviet poet Mandelstam, who was once accused of committing the crime of counter-revolution and was thus persecuted, wrote a poem during the Great Purge of 1937: ‘And when I sleep, after serving, In life to the living a friend, It will echo deeper and higher — The reply of the sky in my breast.’ The same goes for our museum. We are looking forward to recording the echoes from the forerunners, and to disseminating them deeper and higher.
Over the last month, we have continued some of the fundamental tasks including collecting and sorting the documents and materials, and the curation framework for the collections has also been more clearly established. We are preparing to undertake the designing of the visual layout and user interface for the website. Meanwhile we have also started to build our expert committee, in the hope to obtain valuable advice from the academic circle, depicting more integrated and unique memories of the June 4th incident.
For the past few months, we have received numerous responses from the readers with their relics and memories from the June 4th massacre. We would like to extend our gratitude to all for their support and participation. If you possess any collections, or have participated in any researches or studies related to the 1989 student demonstration and the democracy movement, please contact us at 64.museum.online@protonmail.com to have your contributions permanently archived and posted in our online museum as part of the historical documentation for public access. Institutions preserving any aforementioned materials are welcome to contact us for cooperation as well.
Please contact us via 64.museum.online@protonmail.com should you have any advice or information that you would like to share with us.
We wish you a healthy and happy New Year!
June 4th Memory & Human Rights Museum
Feb 22, 2021
