What's The Best Thing To Do With Unwanted Statues

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Pedestal

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قادة تمثال

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They tried to knock down the thick, concrete pedestal, but to no avail

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Avail

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جدوى

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They tried to knock down the thick, concrete pedestal, but to no avail

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Armoured

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مدرعة

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Then an American armoured vehicle appeared.

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Flip

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زحافة، نعال

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taking their flip flops off, and using them to beat the statue of their former ruler.

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Oppression

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ظلم

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Baghdad's many statues of the country's leader had been a symbol of oppression

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Plinth

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قاعدة تمثال

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The plinth where Saddam's statue once stood was empty for a long time

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Sectarian war

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حرب طاءفية

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As a sectarian war raged, no-one could agree what should be in its place

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Raged

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احتدام

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As a sectarian war raged, no-one could agree what should be in its place

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Decreed

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يفرض

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An order issued by the victorious Allies in 1946 decreed that any manifestation of the Third Reich

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Manifestation

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مظاهر

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An order issued by the victorious Allies in 1946 decreed that any manifestation of the Third Reich

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Oppressors

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ظالمين

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How can a country go on with statues of oppressors and of dictators

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Architect

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مهندس معماري

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the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin

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Remambarance

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دكرى

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For Germany, remembrance did not happen immediately after the war

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Unspeakable

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لا يوصف

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unspeakable crimes and be a successful democracy

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Viod

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فراغ

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He began by creating a void, "which is the centre of the museum,

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Emptiness

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فراغ

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which is an emptiness, an empty space where nothing is really exhibited

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Exhibited

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يعرض

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which is an emptiness, an empty space where nothing is really exhibited

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Overgrown

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متضحم، متشجر زيادة عن اللزوم

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In northern Delhi there is a large park. It's slightly overgrown, stray dogs wander around

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Stray dogs

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كلاب ضالة

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In northern Delhi there is a large park. It's slightly overgrown, stray dogs wander around

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Clamour

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صخب ، تذمر

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After India won independence in August 1947, there was no clamour to remove the statues of monarchs and viceroys from the boulevards

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Boulevared

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الجادات

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After India won independence in August 1947, there was no clamour to remove the statues of monarchs and viceroys from the boulevards

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Manarchs

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ملوك

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After India won independence in August 1947, there was no clamour to remove the statues of monarchs and viceroys from the boulevards

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Viceroys

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نواب الملك

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After India won independence in August 1947, there was no clamour to remove the statues of monarchs and viceroys from the boulevards

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Lavish

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ضخم

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It had been the site where lavish ceremonies

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Effigies

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دمى، تماثيل

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Today it is where effigies of former officials from the colonial era

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Graveyards

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مقبرة

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And that's how it got the name," he says. "A graveyard of statues

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Iconic

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شهير

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The most iconic of the statues is King George V

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Dismantled

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فكك

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He was dismantled and taken to the place where he attended the Delhi durbar

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Refurbished

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جدد

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open a new, refurbished version of the park on the centenary of this occasion in 2011

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Centenary

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الذكرى المئة

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open a new, refurbished version of the park on the centenary of this occasion in 2011

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Plaques

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لوحات ، صفاءح

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with plaques providing historical context

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Derelict

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مهجور

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The park remains derelict, containing the Raj-era statues

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Commemorating

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احياء ذكرى

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Scattered across southern states in America are statues commemorating Confederate leaders and soldiers

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Courthouse lawn

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مروج المحكمة

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says many statues were built on county courthouse lawns

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Erected

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نصبت

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Statues such as the one of Confederate general Robert E Lee, erected in Richmond

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Supremacy

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تفوق

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and a permanent reminder of white supremacy, Beetham argues.

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Editorials

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افتتاحية

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Journalist John Mitchell, for example, wrote editorials in the Richmond Planet newspaper at the time

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Prophetically

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نبويا

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saying prophetically "that black workers had been conscripted to put the statue up

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Conscripted

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جند الزاميا

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saying prophetically "that black workers had been conscripted to put the statue up

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Paying tribute

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الاشادة

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arguing that they were paying tribute to Confederate military heroism rather than defending slavery

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Nock down

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صرع

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Heroism

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بطولة

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arguing that they were paying tribute to Confederate military heroism rather than defending slavery

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Cast

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وصف، صب

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They also cast the war as a defence of states' rights

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Parishioners

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رعية

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It started after the shooting of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel Church in Charleston

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Pistol

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مسدس

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The killer was later discovered with a pistol and a Confederate flag

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Pinpoints

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حدد

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and Sarah Beetham pinpoints that as the moment

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Explicitly

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صراحة

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when the Black Lives Matter movement explicitly linked such violent attacks to the long history of racism symbolised by Confederate monuments

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Symbolised

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يرمز لها

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when the Black Lives Matter movement explicitly linked such violent attacks to the long history of racism symbolised by Confederate monuments

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Coalesced

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التحم، تجمع

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many protests have coalesced around these statues

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Loyalists

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موالين

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Loyalists tried to preserve parts of the statue by burying them underground

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Remnants

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بقايا

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remnants are are still occasionally unearthed today.

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Unearthed

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اكتشاف

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remnants are are still occasionally unearthed today.

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Reckoning

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تصفية حساب، اعادة حساب

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It says that maybe finally we're going to have some kind of reckoning about what the Civil War was actually about

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Atone

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يكفر عن

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maybe we're ready to atone for some of these things