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Silence of the Tanks

this is another picture, over one year old. I had to do it in HDR, to highlight the whole scope of it.

 

I have taken this shot in the national museum of my city in Kurdistan of Iraq, Sleimani."red security museum". The area and the building used to be a compound of the security apparatus of the ex-dictator "Saddam"s men. They used their power,especially in the 1980s, to scare and impose their brutality on the Kurds and many others.

 

These tanks are parts of the remains of the ex-dictator's army left overs! A dictator who spent billions and billions of dollars on tanks and military machines in successive wars. There lies as a black part of histor. A lesson in history for all who follow opression uselessly. It is sad to see that such a mentality is still out there, making news, from here and there, under various ideologies and covers. Peace...

 

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Uploaded on January 28, 2012
Taken on December 15, 2010