David.
“Vortex – if we don’t have any heritage we don’t have any sense of where we have come from and indeed how we can learn from it. Should the concentration camps that are intact be bulldozed
and forgoten about ?”
The concentration camps should never be forgotten about or bulldozed. But Vortex has a point. One hospital, and the care that it provides, however rudimentary, is of more value than a concentration camp museum. What good is having a sense of where you come from and magnificent artefacts to display when children are dying on the streets, electricity is available sometimes, the basic infrastructure is destroyed. Ask a mother whose baby has septicaemia whether she wants a thousand year old vase or some penicillin.
“Why should the coalition bother to look for graves of people who have disappeared in Iraq – what to they stand to gain?
Maybe by knowing what happened to them we can put them to rest but also fill in the history of what his regime did.”
Just a shame it’s twelve years too late. I think there’s enough evidence of what was done already. Just a pity the world stood by and let it happen. A cynic might also suggest it’s a way to dissuade people from questioning the whereabouts of the elusive WMD’s?
“History is tangible and only through artifacts in museums can we instill a sense of belonging in people and indeed identity.”
That’s true up to a point. But my identity was established through the people with whom I interacted long before I ever set foot in a museum. People are and always will be more important than artefacts.
Regards,
kev35
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