4.06.2005

Necrotourism?

This from the BBC is just plain weird:
City authorities are on Thursday due to sign a deal with a Japanese company to develop the site's tourist potential. Around 17,000 people are buried there in mass graves. The skulls of around half are displayed behind glass panels on a Buddhist stupa at the site. Tourist buses regularly bump down the dirt track to the memorial.
Couldn't they at least call them "pilgrims" or something? There's got to be a more appropriate way of dealing with the artifacts of genocide.