Congo: bookmarks

Global Witness are always good for info on resource exploitation - http://www.globalwitness.org/

nkunda claimed some time ago that he gets his funds, or at least a significant proportion from American "Missionaries"...the geopolitics are as usual under reported but extremely significant and its clear that there will be more "rebel" groups popping up to counter Chinas expansion in Africa (and soon South America)

Exposing the British people facilitating the conflict for profit - sounds like an interesting campaign's angle, Krease chan.

I think we need to hear more about the behind the scenes (who's selling arms fuelling the conflict / who is exploiting the minerals from North Kivu?) and not always the same story - crisis in Congo / rebel attacking / refugees / UN intervention.

I still think that exploiting the rich minerals of the North KIvu has got something to do with the all crisis. If coltan is already mainly extracted in Australia, it looks like there are new grounds ready to be exploited in Eastern Congo. President Kabila has signed up contract with China recently allowing them to exploit resources in the region. This is probably not making some people happy. everybody wants a piece of the cake.

British anti slavery campaigners from the 1780s would lay claim to a much earlier human rights campaign, whether that was the first is unlikely though given the history of many peoples fights for justice...it should also be noted that most of the world Coltan production, infact the majority is in Australia...not to diminish the devastating impact it has in the DRC

I think a campaign by UK based campaigners exposing the British people facilitating the conflict for profit would be an extremely good place to focus energies on

We need a kind of blood mobiles campaign. If only it were possible to get coltan from mines which were treating their workers well and were not invoilved in or contributing to the human misery of the Congolese people. Interestingly this has an echo of the world's very first human rights campaign which was targeted against King Leopold's ruthlessly vicious rubber industry.

Why are we not denouncing the bloody war for precious mineral resources like the coltan (more and more in demands because of its use in mobile phone and other wireless devices)?