Your cell phone a computer is stained with African blood and tears MP3

Warlords in war-torn areas of Africa the use of diamond trading has been banned a long time to obtain funding for such diamonds by the name "Blood Diamond." Assist in revealing, "Blood Diamond" Inside Story of the NGO "Global Witness" reported that Africa at the moment "blood mining" suspicions, some Western mining companies from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who buy rare mineral warlords and sold to high-tech industry. 25, U.S. media reported that mobile phones, computers and other daily necessities which,nhl, perhaps with a "color."
The so-called "blood mining", not copper, iron and other common metals, but cassiterite, wolframite, coltan and other rare metals and gold, in the frequent wars of the Congo (DRC) eastern part of the enormous reserves. Manufacture of light bulbs, computers, MP3 music players and electronic games and other products needed to these minerals.
"Global Witness" organization devoted to explore the natural resources and war, poverty, corruption correlation. Last week a report entitled "In the face of guns, have no choice but to" report, the organization said that in the past 12 years of conflict, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military forces factions profit-making use of local mineral resources to purchase weapons, payment of salary. Reported that mineral research by tracking the supply chain and found that "blood mining" through an intermediary,chi hair straightener, from the hands of warlords sold to Western Mining giant hands.
Miners like captive animals
Reported that armed groups of civilians for forced local miners, and sometimes non-payment of wages. South Kivu Province, a miner, said: "We like their plate of meat, animal raising circles. If we pay attention to no one."
The main destination of these rare metals are the electrical appliances industry. Mobile phone as an example, the "shock" the realization of this feature is necessary to rely on the wolframite. But in the end to enter the factory before the wolframite may hand down more than 7, if there is no clear-cut supply chain information, the consumer has no way of knowing whether or not the hands of the electrical "blood."
On the participation of "blood mining" business transaction, "Global Witness" is estimated to take part in perhaps as many as 240. Special point of this organization is particularly suspicious of 4, respectively, for the British subsidiary of the joint metal smelting and refining company in Thailand, Belgium AFRIMEX UK, Belgium and TRADEMET company TRAXYS.
In addition, "Global Witness" to the Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Nokia and Motorola and other manufacturers of electrical question. The organization said that, despite these manufacturers may not have violated any laws, but they still have the obligation not to confirm the source of raw materials " stick blood."
The queries raised by the report, "Time" magazine to the most "suspicious" of the four companies to ask questions, answer all been negative.

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