Afghanistan's 'Talibanksy' graffiti

A new group of anti-war protesters and anti-capitalist graffiti artists have taken their protest to the streets of Afghanistan's city, Kabul.

The anonymous group have called themselves 'Talibanksy' which translates as "students of Banksy" in reference to the British guerilla artist 'Banksy' who stirred up controversy in London with his politically motivated stencil art. He soon became a global phenomenon taking his stealthy protests to the U.S as well as the Gaza strip and the West Bank to demonstrate against the apartheid wall built by the Israeli government.

'Talibansky' however have provided no information on who they are but have stated that they are a group of Westerners that want to provoke similar anti-war and anti-capitalist sentiments in Afghanistan's capital. They also go by the name 'Combat Communications'.

The locations of the graffiti are carefully selected - dollar signs stencilled along the ruined Kabul streets of open drains and unpaved roads to ask the question, where has the money been spent?

Other dollar signs are stencilled in areas of the city where helicopter gun rattle can be heard in the background on a daily basis, serving as mouthpiece of the local opinion that war costs money, an estimated $100 million dollars a day since autumn 2001.

The silhouetted markings of soldiers and poppies are purposely ambiguous so that the perceiver draws their own conclusion. Some believe that it to indicate the fact that the $3 billion a year opium trade that comes out of Afghanistan financially sustains the U.S military presence in Afghanistan.

Grafitti of children walking hand in hand highlights the human cost of war. Since the 2001 U.S led invasion an average of 2,000 civilians a year (mostly women and children) have been killed.