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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague have just convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING Sudan news via Elizabeth Evenson, International Justice Director @hrw.org ⤵️

“The ICC’s long-awaited landmark conviction for serious crimes in Darfur provides the first opportunity for victims and communities terrorized by the Janjaweed to see a measure of justice before the court."

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · 3d

This is als true for other NASA websites/platforms, such as NASA Worldview
worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 9d

When my grandfather died in 2004, I was 11. At his home in Nijmegen I found a battered briefcase, unopened for years. Inside: photos, consular forms and letters — a history of falling empire, colonial decoupling and rising nationalism that marked those who lived it.

newlinesmag.com/first-person...

Caught Between States as an Empire Dissolved

A Dutch-Indonesian family’s documents from the mid-20th century reveal a painful story of separation and an administrative nightmare that prefigures today’s xenophobic politics

newlinesmag.com

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 23d

A UN commission of inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & says "the duty to prevent genocide obligates States to take all necessary steps to try to avoid or stop the commission of genocide".
Its full report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

www.ohchr.org

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · Sep 8

GitHub recently restricted access to repos filed with OSINT/dark web/infosec links and resources. I spoke to multiple people that had their accounts blocked from public view without warning or explanation.

Read GitHub's response and more @indicator.media:
indicator.media/p/github-res...

Why is GitHub restricting accounts that share OSINT and dark web resources?

At least half a dozen repos or entire accounts were recently banned or blocked from public access

indicator.media

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Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · Sep 2

I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world:

railmapper.net

Rail Mapper

Design and analyze high speed rail networks

railmapper.net

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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · Aug 7

A must read - ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam as UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

We traced an armoured vehicle used in a violent attack in Sudan, all the way back to a location in the middle of Libya's desert.

There it was parked, at a location where we found hundreds of other vehicles parked in rows.

Watch our investigation here:
youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM

#KeepEyesOnSudan

How we found an RSF military camp in the Libyan desert

YouTube video by CIR - Centre for Information Resilience

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Aug 4

@ayinnetwork.bsky.social
:طرحوا عليّ بعض الأسئلة حول تحقيقنا. اقرأ تقريرهم هنا

3ayin.com/rsf-and-libya/

أدلة جديدة على دور ليبيا في تسليح قوات الدعم السريع – Ayin network – شبكة عاين

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Olaf Koens @olafkoens.bsky.social · Aug 2

Lees het maar eens, deze afsluitende alinea in
@standaard.be over kinderen in Gaza. Lees het dan nog eens.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you, I did read that a long time ago, but thanks for sharing and reminding me! Very interesting.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Aug 1

This investigation involves what may be the most extreme geolocation I've ever done.

Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social · Jul 31

For the first time, CIR has uncovered the location of a Sudanese RSF military camp in the desert of Sudan’s neighbour, Libya.

It is directly linked to the war in Sudan.

We will show you where, we will show you how.

Watch in full now: youtu.be/umaFPlwJUKM

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Jul 28

Gevonden! Inderdaad Riga, Stabu Stiela 1. Zelfs jaren geleden bevestigd door @olafkoens.bsky.social zelf 🙂. Muur heeft inmiddels een likje verf gehad.

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Lotfi El Hamidi @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social · May 24

Wat goed, @trouw.nl.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · May 15

Remnants from the same model were also circulated last Saturday after an alleged drone strike on a prison in El Obeid

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · May 15

For the record, but it appears these are not GB50/GB7A, but newer GB50/GB7B. You can see the difference in how the tail fins are mounted to the bomb. Also see www.info-res.org/reports/alle... (disclaimer: I'm part of Sudan Witness)

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Apr 26

And to stick with the metaphor: an electric whisk is not gonna be very helpful at places where there’s no electricity. I mean there will be large differences with areas that are underrepresented or have less data density

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Mar 17

Al bekend met @tortoisemedia.bsky.social? Veel goede series in Tortoise investigates bijvoorbeeld: Sweet Bobby, Hoaxed, Pig Iron

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Mar 11

Important example showing how synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical satellite data are complementary. Here are pairs of images used by Reuters to document gravesites in Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

Imagery from Umbra (SAR) & Airbus (optical).

Four images showing fresh graves in cemeteries near the Zamzam refugee camp. The left column is two synthetic aperture radar images, which look like grainy black and white photos. On the right are two very high resolution true-color satellite images. Some graves are visible in both synthetic aperture radar and true-color imagery, others are more easily identified in one or the other. The two types combined help provide a more accurate picture of the total number of graves.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Jan 31

Nyala (South Darfur) has mainly smaller scale damage from munition impacts, but there's also a neighbourhood near the army base that was destroyed after RSF took over late 2023.

credit: Airbus/GE

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Jan 31

El Fasher is tragically not the only city to have witnessed widespread destruction. El Geneina (West Darfur) might even have more extensive damage, where IDP camps were burnt down and neighbourhoods razed to the ground in 2023.

credit: Airbus/GE

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Jan 31

New Google Earth imagery shows the devastating toll of a war that has been raging in the city of El Fasher (North Darfur) #Sudan for almost a year now. #KeepEyesOnSudan

credit: Airbus/GE

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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · Dec 31

For nearly two years, a shadowy paramilitary group – the Rapid Support Forces – has been terrorising Sudan. We spent months collecting evidence that identified commanders and revealed potential war crimes happening under their watch.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan

Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Nov 14

Het Reuters filmpje stond zelfs - out of context - op de voorpagina van de NYT, zie hier, incl. gelijksoortige rectificatie

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Foeke Postma @foeke.bsky.social · Nov 9

The NYT front page could use some context right now: the "crowd attacking a person" in the video below are Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters, some of which donned masks and armed themselves with iron poles beforehand.

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Mark Snoeck @snoeck.bsky.social · Nov 14

NYT now just deleted the video and added a footnote
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Nov 14

New York Times issue a correction about this story, acknowledging that a video they used to underscore people chasing Israeli fans was in fact, showing the opposite. They didn't correct the argument, but simply deleted the video
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/w...

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