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.