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Google satellite focuses on the atrocities in Darfur

Friday, 13 April 2007

An insight into the violence and chaos in Darfur has been provided through a new project in which the public can use online satellite imagery to view destroyed villages and obtain information about refugee camps and other humanitarian efforts.

For the new project, the company has updated its service with even higher resolution images and has integrated the pictures with icons that represent destroyed communities and displaced people across the Darfur region of southern Sudan.

By clicking on an icon, users can access more information, eyewitness testimony and photographs about what has happened in specific locations.

The violence in Darfur is estimated by the United Nations to have claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people over thepast four years and displaced 2.5 million people.

Source: The Independent

"United States Darfur policy ... is sleep-walking the international
community into another Iraq-type catastrophe." - 'Sudan Vision' Newspaper Interview with ESPAC Director, Professor David Hoile - 26 September 2004

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Aber Sabeel (189.179.9.xxx) 2007-04-16 13:54:58

I think it would be as well very interesting to see the images of Iraq Before-and-After the US "liberation war" on Iraq. The Iraquis must be very happy now, knowing how their country was before, and how it is now!