More than doubled from the number announced in 2007, over 3,300 villages have been damaged or completely demolished in Darfur.
Google Earth has the ability not only to show photographs of these villages as they currently are, but also allows people to view how the villages looked before they were attacked. The technology also has the ability to identify the specific year in which a particular village was destroyed and has revealed that by 2005, over 2,000 villages throughout Darfur had been wiped out. Google Earth is currently working on a map that will divide villages into the years they were destroyed, as well as provide a “narrated flyover tour” of the Darfurian villages that have been attacked.
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I had no idea that Google Earth was working on this project. I would never have thought of technology being applied to the genocide in Darfur in this way. Hopefully this technology will help people understand the genocide and its effects on people in Darfur. It is one thing to read about villages being destroyed but it makes the problem more personal to actually see the destruction and what it would have looked like before. Some people may view Google Earth as a violation of privacy, but it is also not letting something like the situation in Darfur remain a secret.
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