For the last few years, we have all heard about the tragedy that is Darfur. For those of you in the dark about this genocide, since 2003 the Sudanese military has been hunting down and killing nomadic tribes. The unfortunate beginnings of this conflict lie in problems of overpopulation combined with long droughts and deforestation. Since this genocide has started, largely unnoticed by the global population as a whole, we have come together to combat the terrible events following the tsunami, send aid to help in the Chili earthquakes, and of course, the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katherina. In effort to bring awareness to this problem, Google along with the Holocaust Memorial Museum, have placed small red marks on the map of Darfur, as seen by the Google Earth satellite, wherever a village has been destroyed. Just looking at the map, see right, we are able to see the conflagration of destruction that the Sudanese people are enduring. If that isn't enough to grab your attention, by clicking on the aforementioned red marks, you can see vivid pictures of starving children who cry for the lives that have been lost. If we don't take note soon these images of sorrow will forever remain in Darfur.
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