War of Resistance and Coastal Defence Museum to Open Next Tuesday; Lau Chi-pang Calls Claims of Young People’s Historical Ignorance Absurd
抗戰及海防博物館下周二開幕劉智鵬稱對年輕人不知歷史感到無稽
Last year’s Policy Address proposed converting the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence into the “Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence”. The museum will officially be renamed next Tuesday (September 3), and will launch a special exhibition on the Dongjiang Column on Wednesday (the 4th). The exhibition will run until July next year, with free admission. At a pre-opening event this afternoon, Legislative Council member Lau Chi-pang said the exhibition was a major “milestone”. He said it was absurd and worrying that he had previously found many young people did not know the history of the Dongjiang Column. He also believed some members of the public focused only on the British forces’ 18-day war and “mixed up” the two periods of history, because the British forces “were not defending the precious land of our Chinese nation”. He said, “If the two things are lumped together, the entire War of Resistance would be meaningless.”
去年《施政報告》提出將香港海防博物館改設為「香港抗戰及海防博物館」，博物館於下周二（9月3日）正式更名並於周三（4日）推出東江縱隊專題展覽。展覽將會展出至明年7月，市民可免費入場。博物館今午舉行開幕前奏，立法會議員劉智鵬亦有出席，他表示展覽是重大「里程碑」，又指過往發現很多年輕人不知道東江縱隊歷史，令人感到無稽與擔憂；他甚至認為有市民只著眼於英軍18日戰爭，「撈亂」兩段歷史，因為英軍「都唔係保衛我哋中華民族嘅寶貴土地」，並謂「如果兩件事撈埋一齊嚟講，成個抗戰就無意義嘅」。