Picasso's Guernica

In the comments section of the post below somebody asked me when the mural in Baghdad (pic below) was built. It was built before my time, and so I Googled 'Baghdad mural Picasso Guernica' and discovered that Picasso's painting depicts the Nazi bombing of a Basque village during the Spanish Civil War. 'Over 1,600 civilians perished in the world's first sustained aerial bombardment of a civilian population'. Until yesterday I thought it was a depiction of the Spanish Civil War only, as I read at the British Museum in 2003 (maybe there was more to read). I discovered something else from this website. A reproduction of this painting was hanging at the entrance of the UN Security Council until they took it down a few weeks before the bombing of Iraq in 2003. I did not know that.