Story at a glance
- The Taliban has begun to remove and paint over a series of social and political-themed murals in Kabul.
- A mural honoring the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement was replaced with a quote calling the Taliban the “true defenders” of Afghanistan.
- Outside of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Monday, the Taliban painted its flag on one of the outer walls.
The Taliban has begun to remove and paint over a series of social and political-themed murals in Kabul, including one honoring the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement.
The U.S.-Taliban mural was replaced with a quote calling the Taliban the “true defenders” of Afghanistan, according to a report in the New York Post.
Outside of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Monday, the Taliban painted its flag on one of the outer walls.
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A mural dedicated to George Floyd, which says “I can’t breathe,” has not been removed yet, according to the Daily Mail.
“Taliban was and is an armed movement that only understands guns, violence, beating, beheading, suicide vests and bombs,” Omaid Sharifi, a painter with the creative collective Artlords, who created some of the original murals, told The Guardian.
“There is no vocabulary about art in the Taliban’s dictionary,” he added. “They even cannot imagine art. I think they don’t understand it, that’s why they are destroying it.”
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