Wu Kau Tang Martyrs Memorial Garden, War memorial in North District, Hong Kong.
Wu Kau Tang Martyrs Memorial Garden is a war memorial on Bride's Pool Road near Wu Kau Tang Road in northern Hong Kong. It was rebuilt and inaugurated on 24 September 2010, replacing an earlier monument that villagers had erected on a hillside after the war but later considered too remote. The site commemorates villagers and guerrillas killed during the Japanese occupation.
During the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945, villagers and fighters in the Wu Kau Tang area took part in active resistance and many lost their lives. Their sacrifice went without formal recognition for decades before a memorial was eventually established.
The memorial was rebuilt and inaugurated on 24 September 2010, replacing an earlier monument villagers had put up on a hillside after the war because that spot was considered too remote. In August 2015 the State Council listed it among the second batch of national war-resistance memorial facilities and sites. On 17 September 2019 it was defaced with graffiti, including the words "anti-extradition".
The memorial stands on Bride's Pool Road beside the turn-off to Wu Kau Tang Road in northern New Territories; the site was moved here from a hillside spot villagers judged too remote. It is reached on foot or by vehicle along Bride's Pool Road, and the rebuilt monument was inaugurated on 24 September 2010.
The stele now standing at the site is a reconstruction unveiled on 24 September 2010; the villagers' original monument had been raised on a hillside they later judged too remote and asked to move. In August 2015 the memorial was placed on the State Council's second national list of war-of-resistance facilities and sites.
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