Satellites Aid Darfur Human-Rights Efforts

By Sam Kean

To stanch bloodletting in Darfur, an Amnesty International project is putting satellite images online to monitor 12 vulnerable villages in Sudan and nearby Chad.

The dozen villages have not been attacked but are in danger because of their location near water or other resources, say officials of Eyes on Darfur. In addition to monitoring those areas, the project is intended to alert the Sudanese government that hard evidence of human-rights violations exists, and to force the government