Violent Groups Earning Millions from Theft in War, Getting Away with It
From the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to Al-Shabaab, violent armed groups are generating hundreds of millions of dollars and financing their activities through illicit trafficking of minerals and other natural resources, warns a new report by the Enough Project. "Grand Theft Global: Prosecuting the War Crime of Natural Resource Pillage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo," details how prosecuting commanders, trafficking kingpins and transnational facilitators for the war crime of pillage ("theft during war") could break new ground to help end the world's worst resource-driven violence.
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