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Article: Iraqi artists depict anger over Abu Ghraib; Twenty-five artists are displaying sculptures, paintings, and installations at a Baghdad gallery.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 15, 2004
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Byline: Nicholas Blanford Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD -- If one image symbolized the US-led coalition's victory over Saddam Hussein it wasthe toppling of the dictator's statue in central Baghdad last April. Yet that signal moment has been replaced by a simpler motif - a man wearing a ragged cloak, his head covered by a bag and his arms outstretched in an terrible, but unintended, parody of Jesus' suffering on the cross.
That image of a detainee at the US-run prison at Abu Ghraib on the western edge of Baghdad has come to symbolize for many Iraqis how the dream of liberation and self-determination has turned into the nightmare ...