Something interesting I read on Le Monde today: The US Holocaust Museum and Google Earth have teamed up to offer their audience an extensive, real coverage of Darfur.
With a reinforced viewing resolution, detailed maps of burned villages and photos of victims, the sponsors of this project hope to allow people to 'visualize and understand the Genocide in Darfur'.
Well, the idea is pretty damn good, I think!! So, you want to deny that there's an ongoing genocide? Well, there you go, mate! IN YOUR FACE! This makes it quite harder for us to, once again, bury our heads in the sand and pretend that nothing is going on, or, worse, that 'the conflict is likely to stabilise into a sustainable equilibrium of some sort' (an argument I recently heard about Iraq...).
To view these images, you need to download a special applet for Google Earth (which you can do on the page of the Holocaust Museum) and then, well... 'enjoy', for the lack of a more appropriate word.
(And the little activist in me now wants to shout: Go for direct intervention! Lobby for a UN-PK mission in Darfur!!!)
With a reinforced viewing resolution, detailed maps of burned villages and photos of victims, the sponsors of this project hope to allow people to 'visualize and understand the Genocide in Darfur'.
Well, the idea is pretty damn good, I think!! So, you want to deny that there's an ongoing genocide? Well, there you go, mate! IN YOUR FACE! This makes it quite harder for us to, once again, bury our heads in the sand and pretend that nothing is going on, or, worse, that 'the conflict is likely to stabilise into a sustainable equilibrium of some sort' (an argument I recently heard about Iraq...).
To view these images, you need to download a special applet for Google Earth (which you can do on the page of the Holocaust Museum) and then, well... 'enjoy', for the lack of a more appropriate word.
(And the little activist in me now wants to shout: Go for direct intervention! Lobby for a UN-PK mission in Darfur!!!)
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