Google Launches A Program Designed To Highlight Evil In The Purest SenseNow when you go to Google Earth, a global scanning satellite program marks villages destroyed in the Sudanese. There hope is to raise awareness about the ongoing conflict by showing a large swath of Central Africa trimmed in orange.
Zoom in and the words "Crisis in Darfur" appear, along with icons of flames marking 1,600 villages destroyed in fighting between government militias and rebels that has led to the deaths of more than 200,000 people.
Google, whose motto is "Don't be evil", unveiled this feature Tuesday. In a collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the goal is that this technology, unavailable during past humanitarian crises, can drive home the suffering in the isolated Darfur region of Sudan.
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