This KPFA Radio News report(21/3/2010)reports the UK and US financing of Central African wars,approx 8 million deaths.That's roughly equal to a separate 9/11 death toll for each person that died in the 9/11 atrocity.
There is a lot of material online about the funding of the war in the Congo. This is particularly the case this year; it relates to the sale of minerals (conflict minerals) by the militias to the big electronics manufacturers, the proceeds being used to fund their warfare.To the extent that we all use these electronics products everyday, we are all complicit.It also concerns the signing by President Obama, last July, into law a measure that requires corporations to disclose publicly what they are doing to ensure that their products don't contain these minerals.
Read more: http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2010/July/20100722185137su0.4561535.html&distid=ucs#ixzz18axaAP1M
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20090402/ai_n31495938/
http://news.scotsman.com/democraticrepublicofcongo/Congo-Mineral-sourcing-move-to.6662060.jp
http://this.org/blog/2010/08/06/conflict-minerals-congo-canada/
http://www.foreignpolicydigest.org/Africa/October-2010/congos-conflict-minerals-us-legislation-and-impacts-on-the-ground.html
Why did it take so long to take the legislation step? Economic reasons.
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