Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
15 May 2009
In an effort to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fueling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Senate is pushing ahead with new bipartisan legislation that would force U.S. companies to track and disclose the country of origin of minerals used in common electronic products.
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This is a vital moment for the American new government to intervene in DRCongo's war-torn zone to resolve the population misery. The actual DRCongo's government attitude is conducive to the conflict. It is obvious that Kabila and its government are only focusing on the minerals business to fill up their own pockets while forgeting the population misery. A country without good infrastructures in health, education, sport, social welfare etc... but the so-called government is claiming an outstanding performance for the invisible job they have completed so far. Further more they are already trying to postpone the 2011 presidential election to stay in the funny business. Meanwhile they are denying good and geniune opposition leaders and promoting fake party leaders such as Vital Kamehre, the Rwandese loyal to Joseph Kabila. DRCongo is still desparate to find enough aid and food to support its hungry population but in the same time supporting Rwanda and Uganda to re-built their infrastructures and feeding their populations. We hope that America new government will support DRCongo to retrieve real peace and promote real democracy. May the Lord almighty confort and bless DRCongo population in Jesus-Christ name, amen!
The problem is that these materials are frequently flown to Rwanda or other neighboring countries. From there, the label of orgin is printed. However, this is still a very positive step forward. Now if we could get more peacekeepers into the DRC and update MONUC's policies.
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The soft and gentle melody of a sunshine appears in the calm of a delicate reason, that mellow aperture recalling, when the down-pour arrives, a tracing present.
Francesco Sinibaldi
It is an utter nonsence to sugget that the multinational corporations who are looting the DRC minerals with the help of two African proxy warriors Paul Kagame of Rwanda (assisted by Laurent Nkunda) and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda are not aware where the minerals are coming from!
These multinational beasts and their genocidal African collaborators know exactly all the locations of every COLTAN Mine in DRC. Africans leaders do not have mineral exploration equipements to pinpoint where the minerals are located. It is the multinational corporations who have these equipments and do the the exploration under the pretext of finding and protecting some mountain gorilllas. Poor Africans are not accorded the protected same protection given to gorillas! About 1.5 millions Congolese have been murdered and thousands others displaced to give way to the illegal mining of DRC minerals. Rwanda and Uganda have offered covert cover to these corporations because their presidents are willing to kill fellow Africans in exchange for foreign payoffs, a the role they are proud to pay.
Africa is under-developed because of the genocidal roles of people like Paul Kagame, Laurent Nkunda(currently being taken care of by Kagame), Yoweri Museveni, late Mobutu, Charles Taylor of Liberia and Theodore Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. These Africans behave as if they are in the same ranks with the corporations using them to get to these resources. What they do not understand is that, like tools that they are, they can be replaced within a blink of an eye. Multinational corporations do not have friends; they only have interests, which happen to be Africa's natural resources!