Google Maps Genocide

April 13, 2007: Google has moved to highlight the growing humanitarian
crisis in Sudan by utilising its online mapping service to pinpoint
atrocities that have occurred during four years of fighting in the
Darfur region.

Working in conjunction with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Amnesty
International and Doctors Without Borders, the project highlights what
theMuseum says, is evidence of genocide related atrocities.

Google has applied additional the information to its popular Google
Earth service by creating layers on top of its already familiar maps
highlighting damaged and destroyed villages, backed up with
documentary photos and video evidence.

They’ve labelled the application `Crisis in Darfur’and it’s just one
aspect of Google’s move to provide a Global Awareness `folder’
highlighting information on a number of growing crisis occurring
across the world. Ultimately, the project will include data on
genocides that have occurred throughout history, including the
Holocaust.

With the standard Google aerial image included, the new layer will be
presented based on information from the Holocaust Memorial Museum
includingdata collected from independent organisations, photographers
and government reports.

The United Nations estimated over 200,000 people have died during the
four conflict in the Darfur region while a further 2.5 million were
displaced.