In Focus: Congo's Bloody Coltan

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Produced by the Pulitzer Center, "Congo's Bloody Coltan" is a quick glimpse at coltan's role in Congo's civil war. It was featured on "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" in the Fall of 2006.

The war beginning in 1998 that pitted the armies of Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Angola against those of Uganda and Rwanda induced the largest humanitarian disaster since World War II, with an estimated four million Congolese lives lost. Congo's first national elections since 1965 have taken place, but true peace and democracy remain elusive goals.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)" (http://bit.ly/v9W7YA) by Mvemba Phezo Dizolele.

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[laughofken]

This is great! I am doing a class project to enter a competition to raise awareness and stop slavery in the supply chain. We would really like to use part of this in our presentation but we know that copyright is impt. Will you give us permission to use a segment please? Ken

[PulitzerCenter]

Hi laughofken. We're ecstatic that this six-year-old video is still being discussed. Yes, please use this video in your presentation. We like to keep track of how our work is being used for educational purposes so we'd love it if you send us the detail of the presentation, explaining a little bit more of what this project is about and how this video fits in. Please email the info to Nathalie Applewhite (check our website for her email) and if you need a raw file then please let us know as well.

[tigerone1970]

Q: Who profited from this system during 'the war'?

A: It was the dignitaries, the commanders, the lords of war...

Well who were their clients? Who armed and trained them? The documentary makers will not say, as usual.

Check out: Keith Harmon Snow for the answer.

[tigerone1970]

Does anyone really believe the BBC does not report on the non-MDC point of view, because the readers don't want to have all the facts? No, they regurgitate whatever the line of the Foreign Office is - same for CNN, CBS, etc. with regard to their corporate backers and now owners.

Mainstream media are now owned by corporations. Walt Disney, Microsoft, General Electric - they're the media's real audience.

[hatimjm1]

American strategy for resource control is to always create a rebel and then fund that rebel to keep the instability. this is how America works.

[hatimjm1]

They have to keep congo unstable to keep taking these resources.

[PRNluvr4life]

This was uploaded 3 years ago and absolutely nothing has changes. This equates to treating people like animals..even less than. The money that they get is very little. It does not even cover basics needs such as food, water & shelter. If they were animals., they would at least be geting that. Greed...one of the 7 deadly sins.

[omnomnom0704]

this video is really helpful

I am actually part of a student group who is currently focusing on the mining of smartphone materials and we are investigating behind the ethical problems with coltan and tin mining. I was just wondering whether we could use parts of this video in our presentation. We are aware of copyright and we were just wondering if you can give us permission to use parts of it. Thank you so much! -Wendy, Australia

[Bareimus]

нефиг нигерам плодиться как крысы

[thabrickster]

we need the money trail

[startrek1992]

I want to no how I can help? There must be a way.