Japanese Leader Visits "The Guernica"

This is what I call ironic, for a Japanese to go to Madrid to pay a visit of a painting that represents one of the worst crimes committed by the Spaniards against the Basques.

Shouldn't Picasso's "Guernica" be on display in lets say, Gernika, or in any other museum in the Basque Country?

Here you have the note:

Japanese leader takes time out to visit museum in Madrid

Mon Apr 28, 4:13 PM ET

MADRID (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took a break from diplomatic negotiations in Spain to take in the finer sights at the Queen Sofia contemporary art museum, Japanese diplomatice sources said.

The Japanese leader admired works by Spanish painters such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro but he was particularly taken with Picasso's famous Guernica mural symbolising the horrors of war.

The huge 1937 painting depicts the terrorised and dying civilians of Guernica, a small Basque village in northern Spain that was bombed by German planes in April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.

About 1,600 civilians were killed or wounded in the attack.

Koizumi visited the museum after a working lunch with his Spanish counterpart Jose Maria Aznar with whom he discussed the North Korean nuclear weapons crisis.

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