Somewhere right now a drone is hitting a building where people sleep.
By morning the rubble will be cleared. By next week the news cycle will have moved on. By next month the strike will exist only in the memory of those who survived it — and in the silence of those who didn't.
This is how atrocity works. Not through secrecy, but through forgetting.
IGI exists so that forgetting is no longer possible.
We are a permanent, global, public record of strikes on civilian life. Every incident documented. Every location verified. Every piece of evidence preserved — not for a news cycle, but for the permanent record of what happened to human beings in the places where they lived.
We do not editorialise. We do not accuse. We do not take sides.
We see. We record. We publish. That is all.
The name IGI (ee-gee) comes from Sumerian — the oldest written language in human history. 𒅆 means eye. To see. To witness. We chose a word that belongs to no nation, no empire, no ideology. It belongs to humanity before borders existed.
Because the principle is universal. A child killed by a drone in Lutsk and a child killed by a missile in Yemen are the same child. The same failure. The same silence that allowed it.
IGI applies one standard to every conflict, every nation, every weapon. The methodology does not change depending on who fired and who died. Truth is not relative. Evidence is not political. A bombed hospital is a bombed hospital.
The technology exists. Satellites photograph every square metre of earth. Citizens carry cameras in their pockets. Open-source intelligence communities verify footage in hours. The data is there.
What has been missing is the will to make it permanent, structured, and impossible to ignore.
Governments said never again after the Second World War. We have live footage now. We have coordinates. We have timestamps and serial numbers on wreckage. "We didn't know" is no longer available to anyone.
The only question is whether we choose to look at what we already see.
Open source only. No classified data. No leaks. No hacking. We organise what is already public.
Universal scope. Every conflict. Every aggressor. No exceptions.
No accusation. The record shows what happened. Courts and conscience determine what it means.
Permanent. Nothing is deleted. Nothing expires. The record exists as long as the internet exists.
Independent. No government funds us. No nation owns us. No editorial board answers to power.
Real time. Documentation begins within hours, not years. Delay is denial's greatest ally.