Sunday, 5 October 2014

Afghan war's rescued relics bear witness to 13 years of agony

Afghan war's rescued relics bear witness to 13 years of agony | Culture | The Observer
It is arguably the most chilling exhibit collected by a UK museum in recent times. A suicide bomber's vest, primed with explosives but seized by police last year, is among hundreds of objects acquired in Afghanistan by the Imperial War Museums – the first time since the first world war that its curators have visited an active theatre of conflict.

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