Congo, or more precisely, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said to be of valuable minerals to the Saudi Arabia. Gold, silver, diamonds, copper, uranium and other minerals are found here in large quantities. It is this richness in high-priced minerals, with corruption and racism that has brought unimaginable suffering to its people.
Congo – a tragedy of the 21 Century
Today Congo is haunted by a disastrous civil war – a conflict that said,wholesale the deadliest on the planet after the Second World War. The dispute, which began in 1996, has already claimed 5.4 million lives, and it is no end in sight. What drives this never-ending war of rape and genocide?
The simple answer: the world’s hunger for minerals of the Congo.
The south-eastern vibram five fingersCongo, where most of the deposits are located, is controlled by dozens of warlords and rebel groups. It is a country where lawless violence is the norm and rapes and massacres are actually used by people in extreme submission cow.
The warlords control the various mines and quarries in this area deserves – millions of dollars in revenue from these “conflict metals” in neighboring countries such as Uganda and Tanzania, and from there smuggled to markets in Dubai and Europe. For as long as the flow and continue to trade these precious metals, the war in endless cycles of violence and misery for the people of Congo will continue.
Coltan in your vibram five fingersmobile phone
Coltan, or columbite-tantalite is one of the minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo by slave labor from these armed groups controlled reduced. It is the mineral in the production of tantalum, a highly corrosion-resistant metal widely used in capacitors of electronic products like mobile phones, DVD players, game consoles and computers are used. The mobile phone you are now (or PC that you read this article on) could well contain tantalum of coltan mined in Congo.
The millions of dollars in revenue from mining and smuggling coltan, gold 8800 sirocco goldand other minerals are used by these memory stick pro duoarmed groups, weapons, food to buy drugs, and ammunition. Armed and well fed, the militias will keep the war and will continue TANTALUMto terrorize their slave labor in those primitive mines. So, as long as demand for coltan is not illegal, and so long as the trade on the Congolese coltan or banned by governments and the electronics industry, will allow for more money, the various groups will continue to wage war.
