Content Warning: a lot of this stuff is obviously NSFL
Don’t go through this footage if you’re not fully prepared to see things you may never be able to unsee.
It includes:
- 64,537 videos
- 17,905 photos
- Ability to download individual videos
- Searchable index
- Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
- Geolocation data
- Livemap with minute to minute updates
- Victim list
In a news media environment that doesn’t want us to know/remember that a genocide is even happening in the first place, archives like this will preserve the record for future generations and ensure that the victims of this slaughter are not erased from history.
I’m also very skeptical. I just didn’t want us to put words in their mouth, because people often do it in bad faith and I hate it.
It’s very difficult to get unbiased view of what’s happening on the ground for us far away.
But in other wars in history, after the dust had settled, it turned out the insurgents had raided local villages and blamed it on the invading force. I don’t know when the dust will settle on this one, but afterwards I suspect we’ll find there were no good guys.
I don’t think anyone is saying there is good guys, I think it’s just really fucking evil guys, bad guys, and thousands of civilians targeted for torture and murder.