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Satellite images show kilometers of bloodied earth
Land dyed with blood, stretching for miles. It’s there for everyone to see: just open Google Maps. The genocide continues in Sudan, far from the spotlight.
Untold deaths, 14 million displaced. Today’s deadliest war does not have as much media attention as some others. We are talking about Sudan, submerged in a civil war for two years, the most lethal in the world since then.
It is difficult to calculate the number of people killed in the conflict. There are those who, more than double the number of Palestinian deaths caused by the war in Gaza.
Now, the genocide is even visible through satellite images: just open Google Maps and search for “Kumia”. The tide of blood stretches for miles, and it is possible to see completely bloody land with descriptions added by application users such as “Free Sudan”, or “land with blood”.
Last week, according to , tens of thousands of inhabitants in the Al Fasher region were killed. The majority of the city’s 250,000 inhabitants, explain the international media, in western Sudan, are trapped while the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) devastate (literally) the city.
In the Darfur region, satellite images from other companies also show what appears to be, according to , mass graves to be made for the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the conflict.
The conflict, which pits the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) against the Sudanese army, continues to kill civilians, displace millions of people and submerge the country in a wave of .
Carolina Bastos Pereira, ZAP //