The War in the Congo


	The War in the Congo

Yafi07

10-31-2008 9:33 AM

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congo, mobile phones, war

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10-31-2008 11:07 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

We need to build an international system that values the lives of people, more than it values profit.

So very true Thanks for the clip.

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																	Every day I 
																	think about 
																	the people I 
																	met in the 
																	war zones of 
																	eastern 
																	Congo when I 
																	reported 
																	from there. 
																	The wards 
																	were filled 
																	with women 
																	who had been 
																	gang-raped 
																	by the 
																	militias and 
																	shot in the 
																	vagina. The 
																	battalions 
																	of child 
																	soldiers – 
																	drugged, 
																	dazed 
																	13-year-olds 
																	who had been 
																	made to kill 
																	members of 
																	their own 
																	families so 
																	they 
																	couldn't try 
																	to escape 
																	and go home. 
																	But oddly, 
																	as I watch 
																	the war 
																	starting 
																	again on 
																	CNN, I find 
																	myself 
																	thinking 
																	about a 
																	woman I met 
																	who had, by 
																	Congolese 
																	standards, 
																	not suffered 
																	in extremis.
																	</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21124.htm">The 
																	more we 
																	bought, the 
																	more the 
																	invaders 
																	stole – and 
																	slaughtered. 
																	The rise of 
																	mobile 
																	phones 
																	caused a 
																	surge in 
																	deaths, 
																	because the 
																	coltan they 
																	contain is 
																	found 
																	primarily in 
																	Congo.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21124.htm">The 
																	UN named the 
																	international 
																	corporations 
																	it believed 
																	were 
																	involved:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21124.htm">But instead 
																	of stopping 
																	these 
																	corporations, 
																	our 
																	governments 
																	demanded 
																	that the UN 
																	stop 
																	criticising 
																	them. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21124.htm">Congo is the 
																	richest 
																	country in 
																	the world 
																	for gold, 
																	diamonds, 
																	coltan, 
																	cassiterite, 
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