This Computer Supports Genocide: Cell Phones and Coltan in the Congo

Just when you thought it was safe to stop feeling guilty -- it turns out cell phones are murder, too -- just like everything else!

From Alternet, 2006:

“The DRC controls an estimated 64 to 80 percent of world coltan reserves”

http://alternet.org/story/41477/

http://www.seeingisbelieving.ca/cell/kinshasa/

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/Articles/TheStandardColtan.asp

UPDATE!!

Please sign my petition to stop this. The link is here:


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/genocide-free-coltan-for-technological-devices