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| Subject: Eyes in the sky: the new way to identify human rights abuses Fri Aug 31, 2018 6:43 pm | |
| Some war crimes are so bad they can literally be seen from space.
And having eyes in the sky is becoming one of the essential tools for groups trying to identify, document – and perhaps even prevent – human rights abuses across the planet.
Late last year Human Rights Watch's senior researcher in Iraq, Belkis Wille, heard rumours of an atrocity in northern Iraq. There had been a big surrender of Islamic State fighters and their families to Kurdish forces in the north. But only women and children ended up in the camps.
“The very obvious question was – what happened to all the men?” Wille says.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/eyes-in-the-sky-the-new-way-to-identify-human-rights-abuses-20180820-p4zyis.html |
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