WE STAY CURIOUS
NEWS BUREAU
Reuters reported on the Rohingya refugee crisis in
Myanmar in its "Myanmar Burning" investigative series,
which exposes the military units and Buddhist villagers
responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of
more than 900,000 Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Reuters
won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
for this series. While addressing the United Nations Human
Rights Council in July 2019, a UN-appointed independent
expert said the Rohingya still face "grievous human rights
violations" at the hands of Myanmar security forces. The
Maxar News Bureau contributed high-resolution satellite
imagery to Reuters' "Massacre in Myanmar" and "Erasing
the Rohingya" stories in this series.
HUMAN RIGHTS
BBC Africa Eye investigated a mysterious video circulating on
social media that showed two women and two small children being
extra-judiciously executed by men in military fatigues. BBC Africa Eye
used open source tools, geospatial data and Maxar satellite imagery
(left) in its "Anatomy of a Killing" investigation to track down the
location and prove Cameroonian soldiers committed the violence. The
soldiers were arrested and prosecuted as a result of the BBC Africa
Eye investigation. BBC Africa Eye won a Peabody Award in May 2019
for this investigation.
The New York Times investigated a chemical bomb
attack on a multi-story building in Douma, Syria. The
investigation, called "One Building, One Bomb: How
Assad Gassed His Own People," uncovered evidence that
contradicted Syria's claim that the bombing didn't happen.
The U.S. and its allies launched airstrikes against Syria as
punishment for this attack, which violated international law.
This report, which included Maxar satellite imagery, won a
News & Documentary Emmy Award in September 2019.
A Rohingya refugee in Kutupalong camp holds a Maxar
WorldView-3 satellite image that shows what his village
of Inn Din in Myanmar's western Rakine State looked
like before it was burned to the ground and bulldozed.
Image: REUTERS / Mohammad Ponir Hossain.
Maxar's WorldView-4 image of Douma, Syria shows the
suspected chemical attack location.
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