Google Earth Highlights Darfur

jc42 writes "Google Earth, in cooperation with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum now presents details of the growing disaster in Darfur. They give a virtual tour of the area, with details of events in many villages in the words of local residents. So in addition to their "Do no evil" motto, they apparently now have a policy of exposing evil. Needless to say, the Sudan government didn't exactly cooperate with this project."

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Imperialists hands off Sudan!

[Anonymous Coward]

US/UN out!

Re:Imperialists hands off Sudan!

[mapkinase]

Exactly! Mod the parent up. This is insightful and rare view on /. that should be brought to the public's view.

Darfur

[mapkinase]

Darfur is a political issue pushed by Western governments in order to undermine current independent Islamic government of Sudan.

There is war in Sudan that should be resolved internally. There is no "genocide", applying this term is deliberate and malicious exaggeration of inevitable civilian casualties in the armed internal conflict. For the same purposes one could have called Americian Civil War a "genocide".

Re:Darfur

[treat]

And guess what? It was wrong then, and such things are still wrong now.

You really wish for a United States where we didn't wipe out the natives? We would now be in a position similar to Israel. We are lucky we took our chance when such things were considered acceptable, because we would never get away with it now. It would be constant and perpetual civil war. We wouldn't have had the strength to win World War II. Germany, the USSR, and Japan would have divided up the world. We would be living as subjects of one of those empires.

Great plan guy. Real humanitarian you are.

Re:Darfur

[mapkinase]

I am pretty sure I am reading less Arabic media than I am using Google News and definitely less than you listening to Fox News, jihadwatch, free republic and similar crap of a media.

Re:Darfur

[mapkinase]

If the independent Islamic government of Sudan doesn't wish to be undermined, it should stop supporting the extermination of civilians and actually resolve this "internal conflict"

I have seen no evidence of government of Sudan supporting extermination of civilians except obvious fact of ethnic affiliation w/ one of the sides.

Again, as I said in my other comments: West has no credibility in Africa. Period. After slavery, after South Africa, after what French imperialism did to Maghrib, they just should keep mum as fishes.

Re:Darfur

[mapkinase]

You prove Sudanese government participation in this. I do not have to prove anything.

Genocide is a systematic extermination. There is no systematic extermination like it was in Bosnia, with camps. There are attacks on civilians, there are civilians deaths, like deaths in any dangerous area of a conflict.

The term "genocide" is deliberately used by Western propaganda spear headed by Zionist masters instead of milder terms.

I frankly could not care less how you and your neocon moderator friends label me. So you can take it back or to your back. I do not care.

Now get lost.

liberal communists from cnn take over google???

[Adult film producer]

next thing you know google will be showing pictures of iraq and blaming bush for the disaster that happened there, fukken democrats. you google people need to show patriotism and stop blaming bush, all you libs got is hate for bush. cut & run is not a strategy.

The south will rise again, let freedom reign!!

Intervention doesn't happen.

[kahei]

Nobody intervenes to help the Ingush, nobody intervenes to help the Ossetes, nobody intervenes to help the Karens. Look them up.

Nobody intervened to help the Tibetans, nobody intervened to help the Karelians, nobody intervened to help the Andamanese. Look them up too, the Andamanese are fascinating.

Nobody intervened to help the entire population of North America when they were overrun by Europeans and nobody intervened to help the entire population of north-east Asia when they were overrun by Han and Russians and nobody intervened to help the entire pre-Islamic world from Spain to India when it was overrun by Arabs.

Nobody intervened to help the Beaker Folk, the Picts, the Achaean as opposed to Dorian Greeks, the Helots, or the pre-Cro Magnon subspecies of humans.

BUT YES LET'S ALL INTERVENE IN DARFUR. That'll make it all OK.

Trying To Make Up For New Orleans Footshot

[saudadelinux]

Google did evil by posting pre-Katrina shots of N.O. long after the storm went through: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/google_reb uuilds_new_orleans/ so now, they're trying to make up with coverage with a different disaster.

Re:"Do no evil"

[mapkinase]

I explained it in my other comments on this article.

1. The conflict is between Muslims, so Muslims should resolve it. In nowadays situation EVERYTHING that US and Europe does towards Muslims on the government level is anti-Muslim, anti-Islam.

2. Europe and US have no credibility in Africa after centuries of colonial exploitation, after South Africa, after Rodesia. Sheesh, former Soviet Union had more credibility in Africa.

Your post is obviously overblown by politically engaged moderators.

Re:"Do no evil"

[mapkinase]

Iraq was a problem, but it was much much less of a problem after the Gulf war.

I did not say it is OK. It is a civil war, not genocide. War is not ok. Particular twist of Western media labeling it a genocide and de facto undermining the Sudanese government tells me that there is something else behind recent hoopla.

Re:And Irak?

[superyooser]

Shi'a Muslim terrorists blow up a building, killing 20 people.

Satellite pictures of carnage show up on Google.

Leftist editor labels it: "US troops destroy Iraq"