Sri Lanka could improve on its own "Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission", which whitewashed the war crimes.
The tomb's dome is again whitewashed, despite requests by Muslims to paint it green, the colour of Islam.Religious conflict, not rapprochement, seems to be the aim of some hotheads.
The mural, like the painter's one at the art school, was swiftly whitewashed.
It whitewashed its earlier remarks about Jews and presented itself as a patriotic party.
Early in December 2010, a mural on an outside wall of LA MOCA's Geffen Contemporary building that featured dollar-draped coffins by the Italian street artist Blu was whitewashed just hours after it was unveiled; the subject was deemed potentially offensive to the patrons of a nearby Veterans Affairss hospital.
One was Japan's adoption of new history textbooks that whitewashed its wartime atrocities against China.
Here, whitewashed temples sit on the hill like fortresses.
It was England's first win against any Australian side and their first in 10 attempts against their Ashes rivals here this winter, having been whitewashed in the Ashes, trounced in the Twenty20 contest and beaten in three previous one-day internationals.
You could do the round-trip route in a day, but the resort towns of Allinge, Gudhjem and Svaneke, and the pretty fishing villages between them – Teglkås and Snogebæk stand out – are perfectly spaced out for taking it slower, stopping every couple of hours to explore the alleys between whitewashed, low-roofed cottages, feasting on smoked fish, and visiting the sites.
There's no pool but the low-rise whitewashed buildings, behind the calm waters of Vromolimnos beach, have smooth stone floors, sea-view balconies and billowing muslin curtains.
Home for the week is Maes-Y-Gwyddau, Welsh for the Goose Field - a whitewashed stone cottage with walls three feet thick in the village of Rhoscolyn.
