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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has teamed up with Google Earth to allow users to literally see the genocide and destruction happening in Darfur as we speak.

Using coordinates provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Google acquired high-resolution imagery over the region of Darfur and Eastern Chad. Now you can witness the destruction in Darfur via Google Earth. Zoom down and see what a burned village looks like from above, the vast tent cities of people displaced from their homes, and photographs on the ground of refugees struggling to survive. Read eyewitness testimony of atrocities in attacked villages. Visualize what genocide looks like today in Darfur.

I hope that as much as governments use technology to destroy, civilians and peacekeeping agencies can use technology to watch, take action, and most important, prevent atrocities such as Darfur.