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WAR IN CONGO LINKS TO MOBILE PHONE INDUSTRY
Mo - 16.06.2003 19:54

Learn about the illegal trade in Coltan and the ongoing war in Congo


Coltan is necessary element in every single mobile phone, 80% of it is found in Congo.

"It is only found in 3 billion-year-old soils, like those in the Rift Valley region of middle Africa, western Australia and central Asia - has become a critical raw material in high-tech manufacturing"

Learn more:


 http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,26784,00.html?body_page=1

 http://tpi.blogspot.com/
 

Read more about: globalisering vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten wereldcrisis

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artikelen over VS interference in Congo 
willink - 16.06.2003 21:20

Buiten het blikveld van de camera’s voeren de Verenigde Staten een “kalm offensief” om de olie van Afrika. De VS beseffen sinds een jaar dat ze Afrika moeten veroveren, omwille van de olie. Niets zegt dat de olie-rush ook kalm zal blijven. Want ook in Afrika speelt de concurrentie. En in het gebied van de Grote Meren is de rivaliteit om de grondstoffen al openlijk tot uitbarsting gekomen.
 http://belgium.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=58082&group=webcast
oorlog, Congo, je mobieltje en gorilla's... 
willink - 17.06.2003 02:24

Lees verder wat de relatie is tussen coltan, oorlog, Congo, je mobieltje en gorilla's...
 http://www.digischool.nl/ak/2efase/coltan.htm

Consument wil informatie Coltan
"Van de mensen die reageerden op de stelling ‘Telefoonproducenten moeten u kunnen vertellen of in hun mobieltjes Coltan uit Kongo is verwerkt’ vindt 40% dat consumenten moeten kunnen kiezen voor een mobieltje waarin geen Coltan uit Kongo zit."
 http://www.consumentenbond.nl/nieuws/nieuws/Archief/2003/214255?ticket=nietlid

Financiering Congolese burgeroorlog door Nederlands bedrijf
Eagle Wings Resources (EWR), een samenwerkingsverband van het Nederlandse Chemie Pharmacie Holland en het Amerikaanse Trinitech, handelt in coltan dat in de Democratische Republiek Congo (DRC) gedolven wordt.
 http://www.milieudefensie.nl/earthalarm/alarm79congo.htm

Betrokkenheid Chemie Pharmacie Holland bij rebellen in het oosten van D.R. Congo al 2 jaar bekend bij Nederlandse Overheid (3 juni 2003)
 http://www.cordaid.nl/Nieuws/Nederlands-bedrijf-steunt-rebellen-C.doc_cvt.htm

‘Diamonds are a rebels best friend’
 http://www.coherentie.nl/22.html

De plunderingen van Congo
 http://www.11.be/index.htm?zuidwerking/afrika/beleid/plundering.htm&2
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