Satellite Images Corroborate Accounts of Burma Human Rights Abuses


	Satellite Images Corroborate Accounts of Burma Human Rights Abuses

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10-1-2007 4:29 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/39efe4a1-5821-4523-bed7-ee26df6e5021/2DDDB02E-231C-4F3E-B5CD-098197B4DBA3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/satellite-images-corroborate-eyewitness-accounts-human-rights-abuses-burma-14357.html" href="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/satellite-images-corroborate-eyewitness-accounts-human-rights-abuses-burma-14357.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scienceblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/satellite-images-corroborate-eyewitness-accounts-human-rights-abuses-burma-14357.html"><P>A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images -- completed by the American <IMG hspace="5" align="right" alt="Before-and-after satellite images show the site of an apparent military encampment in Burma on 11 November 2000, (top), and again on 13 December 2006 (bottom), when new bamboo fencing can be seen. The human rights group, Free Burma Rangers, reported a major expansion of this camp in 2006, corroborated by the AAAS analysis of images. (Lat: 18.42 N Long: 97.23 E.)</p> <p>Credit: Top image: © GeoEye, Inc. Bottom image: © 2007 DigitalGlobe." src="http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/images/0928burma_report.jpg" />Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- pinpoints evidence consistent with village destruction, forced relocations, and a growing military presence at 25 sites across eastern Burma where eye-witnesses have reported human rights violations.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2DDDB02E-231C-4F3E-B5CD-098197B4DBA3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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