The first panel a visitor to the exhibition confronts is one explaining the confusing and brutal history of Yugoslavia during the war.

But we must shake ourselves free of our own brutal history, not relive it.

It was a pocket of period charm amidst the brutal history.

Afghans had emerged, battered but unbowed, from yet another war, one of many in their brutal history.

The far more brutal history of southern Africa had the opposite effect.

She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a statement against the brutal history of slavery.

The bases, off-limits to the public for years but now accessible, are associated with a brutal political history.

It was Italy's main port to the Orient for a thousand years, and suffered a brutal history.

Some of the darkest moments of Lithuania's brutal history occurred here.

It is intended to help the country put its brutal history to rest without the cost and political divisiveness of trials.