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Article

11 Apr 2007

Author:
Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle

Google Earth zooms in on Darfur carnage - Company joins with Holocaust museum to press for action

In an effort to raise awareness about atrocities in Sudan, Google Inc. has updated its online satellite mapping service with images of burned villages, refugee camps and wounded children... Elliot Schrage, Google's vice president of global communications and public affairs, said the new high-resolution images are intended to encourage individuals to act against what he -- along with U.S. officials and many human rights groups -- describe as genocide.