One of the 1991 Gulf war's most painful
memories is of the U.S. bombing which killed over 400 people at
the Baghdad's Ameriyya shelter. The shelter's ruins became a museum/memorial
after the war with many international activists coming to visit
over the past ten years. After the April U.S. invasion, the Iraqi
government has been toppled and so has the museum. The museum was
looted, and the staff is gone, no one visits anymore.
It has now become the office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, and they are still maintaining the memorial.
"No one wants to remember the past, but we need to preserve our
painful history" the party spokesperson at the memorial says.
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