Controversial Monuments - The Most Debated!!!

African Renaissance Monument, Senegal

It depicts a stylized muscular man with a baby in his arms, emerging from a volcano and pulling along a half-naked woman — and has been criticized for both skimpy clothing and sexism.



Che Guevara Statue, Bolivia

Infamous revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara fought for the rights of the poor; he remains “Saint Ernesto”. There, on the spot where the leader of a guerilla Marxist movement was captured and executed, residents dedicated a bust in his honour in 1997


Valley of the Fallen, Spain

Dictator Francisco Franco ordered the construction of this monument outside Madrid to honour those who died for his cause during the Spanish Civil War. In May 2011, after years of demonstrations and debate, the government assembled a commission.

Last US troops | Leave Iraq

The last convoy of US troops to leave Iraq has entered Kuwait, nearly nine years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Tens of thousands of Iraqis and nearly 4,500 US soldiers have died since the US-led campaign began in 2003. The operation has cost Washington nearly $1 trillion (£643bn)

Pakistan's suppression | genocide

Written by Anthony Mascarenhas, a Pakistani reporter (published in UK's Sunday Times) exposed for the first time the scale of the Pakistan army's brutal campaign and genocide act in breakaway eastern province in 1971.

The Bangladesh government puts the figure at three million.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (published in Sunday Times; told Harold Evans), that the article had shocked her so deeply it had set her "on a campaign of personal diplomacy in the European capitals and Moscow to prepare the ground for India's armed intervention," he recalled. Indians and Bengali guerrillas fought in support of East Pakistan.

To avoid suspicion, Mascarenhas had to return to Pakistan. That time Pakistanis were only allowed one foreign flight a year, he then had to sneak out of the country by himself, crossing by land into Afghanistan.

The day after the family was reunited in their new home in London, the Sunday Times published his article, under the headline "Genocide".