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taken from tens of thousands of feet up and from a vertical perspective. Third, although
satellite images capture specific moments on camera, they cannot provide a context for
these images or explain why the objects or events they are recording have happened.
These difficulties aside, satellite imagery is likely to become a tool employed increasingly
in the future in the attempt to create a genocide-free world, particularly as the technology
becomes ever more sophisticated and accessible.
Save Darfur Coalition. The express purpose of this organization is to raise public
awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur (beginning in 2003 and ongoing
throughout 2007) and (in the words of the coalition’s mission statement) “to mobilize
a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of 2 million plus people in
the Darfur region.” It is an alliance of over 170 diverse faith-based, advocacy, and
humanitarian international groups (e.g., Amnesty International; International Crisis
Group; Society for Threatened People); national organizations (American Federation
of Teachers, AFL-CIO, Anti-Defamation League, Armenian National Committee of
America, Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Episcopal Church (USA),
National Black Church Initiative, STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, Pax
Christi USA, National Council for Churches of Christ in the USA, Physicians for
Human Rights, Canadian Jewish Congress); and regional groups (All Saints Church in
Pasadena, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Washington Buddhist Peace
Fellowship). The coalition reports that its member organizations represent 130 million
people of all ages, races, religions, and political affiliations united together to help the
people of Darfur.
Schanberg, Sydney H. (b. 1934). Sydney Schanberg, a New York Times correspondent,
and his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran (b. 1942), remained in Cambodia following its
takeover by the Khmer Rouge in April 1975, and thus both witnessed the fall of the capital
city of Phnom Penh. Schanberg was ultimately allowed to cross the border to freedom,
but Pran was forced into the Cambodian countryside, which, in part, became the Khmer
Rouge’s infamous “killing fields” between 1975 and 1979. It is estimated that between
1 and 2 million of Cambodia’s 6 to 7 million perished during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
Schanberg’s and Pran’s stories—as well as that of the genocide itself—were related in the
feature film entitled The Killings Fields.
Scheffer, David. A U.S. citizen and lawyer, from 1993 to 1996 Scheffer was senior
adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations. A
long-time advisor to Madeline Albright (b. 1937) (who served as U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations and then as Secretary of State in the U.S. Clinton presidential administration),
Scheffer was appointed to the new post of U.S. Ambassador at Large for War
Crimes Issues and served in that position from 1997 through 2001. From 1999 to 2001 he
headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-agency Working Group of the U.S. government.
Currently, Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of
Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern
University School of Law.
Schindler, Oskar (1908–1974). Born in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary, to Catholic parents,
Schindler is remembered as the Sudeten German who saved more than one thousand
Jews from extermination in his enamelware and munitions factories in Poland and
later Bohemia-Moravia. Always an opportunist, as well as a womanizer, Schindler failed
at various businesses in his early years, later joining the Nazi Party in 1939, even though