P04237.006
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial licensed copyright
- ID number
- P04237.006
- Photographer
- Gittoes, George
- Object type
- Colour - Film original negative 35mm
- Place made
- Iraq: Baghdad
- Date made
- April 2003
- Copyright holder
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd
- Copying provision
- Copy provided for personal non-commercial use
- Copyright details
- Gittoes & Dalton Productions Pty Ltd, PO Box 2 Bundeena, NSW 2230, Australia
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- Muhammed Hassan holds a bunch of flowers in front of Baghdad's bombed-out Olympic Centre building. The building was reportedly used by Saddam Hussein's son Uday as a torture centre. Muhammed Hassan, a gardener at the Olympic Centre, told Australian artist George Gittoes, in April 2003, that twenty-three young girls, between the ages of ten and twelve, were kept prisoner in a basement in the building, and that two died. Gittoes suggested that the gardener place the flowers.
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