Cell Phone Minerals are financing war in DR Congo
The main minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300,000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.
If you ask the phone companies where their suppliers get minerals from, none of them can guarantee that they aren’t buying conflict minerals from the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen gets access to Congo’s largest tin mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work at gunpoint for days in narrow mine tunnels digging out the minerals that end up in our phones.
Blood in the Mobile is a film about our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo and about corporate social responsibility. www.bloodinthemobile.org
See also: Journeyman's film: Congo's Tin Soldiers www.youtube.com
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