War Tourism

I went to an historical site recently and was shown around an old fort with beautiful gardens. It looked like a forgotten palace, deserted, until we pulled up to the building and saw rickety beds lining the pillared porticos with raggedly looking soldiers asleep and sweating in the heat. Once some of them had clocked us and seen that we might be foreigners someone showed us up onto the roof to see the view. One of our escorts, a cocky young man, wore a waistcoat sagging at the pocket with ammo and proudly held his weapon the whole time, posing with it for any picture. We were taken to the library of the hold fort, by it's proud guardian who looked alot like a camel. It had in some cabinets some ancient artifacts which could have been from thousands of years ago, some of them could be identified as similar to some of the ancient empires by my untrained eye. While talking us through what he thought some of them were and where they were dug up from the grounds by soldiers, he smoked away and proceeded to tap his fag ash into the ancient potteries. This I guess is war tourism of sorts. Who has money to bother looking after ancient artifacts or make sure that those charged with looking after them are doing it when there are other things to worry about.