"""A worker applied a coat of wax to the bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi after removing red paint in Amsterdam Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The statue was daubed in red paint and """"Racist"""" was written on its base, an apparent reference to Gandhi's racist controversial references to Africans in his writings, amid a wave of attacks on statues of historical figures in the United States and Europe. The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has sparked a reexamination of many countries' colonial histories and actions that often were exalted in the form of statues and other memorials. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) ** FILE **"""
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