Across the north, murals depicting scenes from the civil war — the displacement, the suffering, the dead — have appeared on walls in towns and villages. For the communities that commissioned and celebrate them, they are acts of remembrance in a context where official memorialisation is blocked or actively suppressed. For the state, they are provocations to be erased.
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