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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

‘We’re all responsible for Afghanistan’: confronting exhibition spotlights Australia’s 20-year war

a collage by Elyas Alavi.
‘Innocent people were killed by Australian soldiers. That is why I’m using my blood’: a collage by Elyas Alavi. Photograph: Elyas Alavi

Front 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 of Afghanistan.

The 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 the Brereton report into war crimes in Afghanistan.

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