An artist’s blood and the Brereton report feature in a month-long Sydney show and symposium that aims to platform victims of a war whose legacy lives on
ront page newspaper stories and torn excerpts from a damning report into war crimes allegedly committed by Australian soldiers will play a feature role in a month-long exhibition in western Sydney about the 20-year occupation ofThe documents form the foundation of a confronting collection of protest collage artworks by Elyas Alavi, as he struggled to process the stark and shocking findings contained in“As an Afghan Australian I struggled to imagine how Australian defence forces could do such...
‘I struggled to imagine how Australian defence forces could do such crimes’: Elyas Alavi in his studio.About 50,000 Afghans now living in Australia will mark the first anniversary of the Taliban moving into Kabul later this month. The program includes a series of forums co-ordinated by Maryam Zahid, founder of Afghan women on the Move, with speakers drawn from the Afghan community including public interest lawyer Lala Pordeli, SBS journalist Abdullah Alikhil, and exiled Kabul court judge Farah Altaf Atahee, whoshortly after the Taliban took control of the capital last August.
in the preceding five months, and more than 70% of journalists who had fled or gone into hiding were women. “We’re all responsible as Australians for the current situation in Afghanistan,” he tells the Guardian. “We occupied the country for 20 years, committed war crimes against Afghan civilians and have very little [that’s] positive to show for our involvement.Calls to put the focus back on Afghanistan
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