Clooney's Satellites Capture Piles of Bodies, Mass Graves in Sudan

[cory777]

Source: Time

George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project set up to monitor the spiraling violence in Sudan has a stunning report out today with convincing evidence showing "a campaign of systematic mass killing of civilians in Kadugli, South Kordofan" in the south-central area of the country. TIME was the first to write about Clooney's project.

The group combined eyewitness reports and DigitalGlobe satellite imagery to pinpoint what seem almost certainly to be piles of bodies in Kadguli and mass graves south of there. The group cites four eyewitness accounts of Sudan Armed Forces from northern Sudan and related militias searching houses in the town and "systematically killing" civilians suspected of supporting southern Sudan forces.

The report describes the slitting of one civilian's throat and sealing and burning homes with civilians inside.

Eyewitnesses also describe the mass graves, shown above, dug by a yellow earth mover on June 8 less than a mile south of the Tilo School in Kadugli. The pits are about 26 meters long and 5 meters wide. Large green trucks were seen driving to the site and unloading around 100 bodies.




Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/07/14/clooneys-satellites-capture-piles-of-bodies-mass-graves-in-sudan/

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[Kurmudgeon]

1. Horrifying, utterly horrifying.

[glinda]

2. wow just wow

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[Arctic Dave]

4. Don't worry, NATO is bombing Libya so Hillary's concious feels better

about not doing anything for them.

Dumbasses were to stupid to be massacred in a country with no oil.

[msongs]

5. our elected leaders do the same thing using drones. no biggie eh? nt

[joshcryer]

20. Huh? Sudan has a quarter of Libya's oil. China would veto in a heartbeat any actions.

Period. Don't be obtuse.

[Arctic Dave]

22. I am talking about the new photos of the mass graves and killings

in Sudan.

One of the reason we are in Libya is because Hillary the Hag felt bad about doing nothing there.

Keep up or sit down and keep quiet.

[joshcryer]

27. Insults and rude language aside, I assure you China would veto any actions.

And until otherwise you have really nothing to say, because it is not the same thing. China and Russia didn't veto Libya when it was well within their power to do so. They did so with Burma, where over 50k people were killed, and they would do so in Sudan (China especially, since they have the oil contracts), even if 100k people were killed.

[dogmoma56]

6. read... Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur, by Halima Bashir >link>>

http://www.amazon.com/Tears-Desert-Memoir-Survival-Readers/dp/0345510461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310691596&sr=8-1

$3 hard cover on Amazon

excellent book on the genocide and slaving of children

[Wilms]

7. About the Satellite Sentinel Project

About the Satellite Sentinel Project

snip

SSP was launched as a six-month pilot project on December 29, 2010, as the result of an unprecedented collaboration between Not On Our Watch, the Enough Project, Google, the United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), DigitalGlobe, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Trellon, LLC. UNITAR/UNOSAT's role concluded when the pilot phase ended on June 30, 2011.

The project works like this: Commercial satellites passing over the border of northern and southern Sudan are able to capture possible threats to civilians, observe the movement of displaced people, detect bombed and razed villages, or note other evidence of pending mass violence.

Google and Trellon collaborated to design the web platform for the public to easily access the images and reports. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative provides system-wide research and leads the collection, human rights analysis, and corroboration of on-the-ground reports that contextualizes the satellite imagery. The Enough Project contributes field reports, provides policy analysis, and, together with Not On Our Watch, and our Sudan Now partners, puts pressure on policymakers by urging the public to act. DigitalGlobe provides satellite imagery and additional analysis.

snip

http://www.satsentinel.org/about

[Lucinda]

8. TY George.

...Clooney, who has made four trips to Sudan since 2006, believes Sentinel might have applications in other global hot spots. "This is as if this were 1943 and we had a camera inside Auschwitz and we said, 'O.K., if you guys don't want to do anything about it, that's one thing,'" Clooney says. "But you can't say you did not know."

[BrightSideOfLife]

9. jesus....

[Soylent Brice]

10. K&R

[Odin2005]

11. OMG!

[valerief]

12. Is the US funding the massacres? nt

[Throd]

13. Of course we are. We are the only source of evil in this world.

[joshcryer]

21. It's reprisals for South Sudan getting independence.

[Recursion]

23. No. But good to know we can default to USA-bashing... (nt)

[valerief]

24. Yeah, the U.S. is so peace-loving. Er, make that peas-loving. nt

[kestrel91316]

14. Clooney's awesome. And I couldn't care less what kind of actor he is.

As a human being, he's awesome.

[Forkboy]

15. K&R

I read that Time article. Not surprised that Clooney is doing this. He's a pretty good person.

[defendandprotect]

16. kr

[amyrose2712]

17. KNR.

[gtar100]

18. Only awareness and a great shaming of the leaders and soldiers involved can stop this.

Unbelievable what kinds of a person takes part in this. These military types turn human beings into zombies of the worst order. No compassion or understanding, just kill. When will they wake up from their violent nightmares? No leader is worth following who calls for this shit to happen. They suffer a mental illness passed on generation after generation.

[FlaGranny]

19. Every country

has a percentage of its population (maybe 10-15%)representing the worst of humanity. They only emerge when they feel safe, when they have been given free reign by authorities. You probably know a few of them. You can feel it in your bones when you are in the presence of such a person.

[Muskypundit]

25. yeah!! thats how you stop them. You make them feel bad about themselves.

It's worked so well since the dawn of civilization.

[gtar100]

29. You underestimate *real* shame and misunderstanding who feels it.

Do you prefer to kill them? What is the real end of destructive, violent behavior? I'm talking about real change, the kind that ends even the desire for evil.

[Muskypundit]

30. uh. yes. yes i do. Every one of those bastards who are responsible for that genocide need to die.

Then after the monsters are gone you can educate them to ensure it doesn't happen again. That's the real end. But good luck getting there when you have serial killers in charge.

[joshcryer]

28. Uh, the President of Sudan has an ICC arrest warrant out for him.

Only way it stops is if the innocent have someone to defend them or are able to defend themselves.

[Vidar]

26. A damned fine actor and a great high tech mode to carry on for Newman,

Sinatra & others of the Hollywood Left who have passed on.