The New York Times came up with an extensive article on the disaster that is going on in Baghdad. The article is accompanied by a full color interactive map which cleanly and clearly illustrates the gory reality on the ground. The colors indicate how the city has fallen apart into separate shiite and sunni neighbourhoods. As a shiite, you risk your life going into a sunni area and the other way round. It may be hard to believe when reading the news, but prior to 2003 no-one in Baghdad realy cared whether you were sunni or shiite. But these days many of the families of mixed descend have no place left to go.
The colors of the map convey a compelling message. It's a brilliant example of the power of color in information design.

Yet it hurts me more than I can tell you to look at this map. I happen to have relatives living in Baghdad....