June 13, 2008
Twelve year old John Marai was in class when he heard the deafening sound of artillery and automatic rifles. He fled the school on foot along with his fellow students, into the bush away from the fighting, running past bodies of soldiers and civilians lying alongside the road.
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World is Witness, a project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, bears witness to genocide and related crimes against humanity around the world. Our staff and guest contributors bring you updates from the field, eyewitness testimony, photographs, interactive maps and more. Witness for yourself here on our website and inside Google Earth.
Learn more about the Genocide Prevention Task Force and its blueprint to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.
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Witness the destruction in Darfur, Sudan through photographs, articles and testimonies via Google Earth.
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