From prison camps in North Korea to mass graves in Burundi,satellite images bear become a powerful tool to monitor conflicts and abuses of human rightsIt was the satellite images showing recently disturbed ground that seemed to provide the final confirmation. There was an increasing amount of evidence to indicate that the Burundi authorities had dug a mass grave to bury victims killed by police in the Buringa area late final year, including witness statements and videos gathered by Amnesty International. But the before and after satellite images, and proving a large amount of earth had been disturbed,were the final pieces of evidence that assign a spotlight on this atrocity.
Tools known as geospatial technology that map and analyse the earth bear been used to expose injustices and human rights abuses for over a decade. Over the years, analysts bear found visual evidence for escalating Boko Haram attacks in north-east Nigeria, and North Korean labour camps,forced relocations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and bear monitored the growing crisis in Darfur, western Sudan.
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Source: theguardian.com