World is Witness
The US Holocaust Memorial has begun a new documentation project in cooperation with Google Earth
World is Witness, a new “geoblog” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiatives, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. The initial entries are from a Museum visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn about the legacies of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and the most recent entries are from a Museum visit to South Sudan and a return visit to the Congo. Visit us again soon for more posts from the field.
You can find the blog [here] and see some pictures of the people whose lives are filled with this horror.
It's so easy to separate ourselves from the realities that other people live with. But, as we celebrate, over the next 75 days, a peaceful transition of power, for much of the rest of the world, such a thing is a distant daydream. Don't forget how very rich your life is.
World is Witness, a new “geoblog” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiatives, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. The initial entries are from a Museum visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn about the legacies of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and the most recent entries are from a Museum visit to South Sudan and a return visit to the Congo. Visit us again soon for more posts from the field.
You can find the blog [here] and see some pictures of the people whose lives are filled with this horror.
It's so easy to separate ourselves from the realities that other people live with. But, as we celebrate, over the next 75 days, a peaceful transition of power, for much of the rest of the world, such a thing is a distant daydream. Don't forget how very rich your life is.