Name: コンゴの紛争鉱物、反乱軍と子供の兵士 (Conflict Minerals, Rebels and Child Soldiers in Congo)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:46:20.000Z
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And my glasses are fogging up because it's so hot.

It's one of the poorest countries in the world, and

thanks to insanely complicated mix of politics, armed

conflict, and corruption, it's also one of the most

It also happens to be home to a nondescript black rock known

as coltan, a vital ingredient in the production of nearly

every cell phone and computer on the planet.

Without coltan, our technology-driven lives would

Congo also has cassiterite, gold, and a slew of other

Now, you'd think that having so much of the stuff would be

good for Congo, but the reality is far from the case.

There's a reason they're called conflict minerals.

SUROOSH ALVI: Since the mid 1990s, armed groups have used

these minerals to fund a series of fantastically

complicated and horrifically violent wars.

SUROOSH ALVI: And as the tech boom drove up the price of

Slaves to technology that we are, we had see for ourselves

where these minerals were coming from and what these

MALE SPEAKERS: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

SUROOSH ALVI: So together with my cameraman Jake and producer

Jason, we hopped on a plane and flew to Congo.

To say that Congo's natural resources have been more of a

curse than a blessing would be an understatement.

Conrad described this place as "the vilest scramble for loot

that has ever disfigured the human conscience." That was

written in the 1800s, right around the time that Belgian

colonists were stripping the country of its rich supply of

ivory and rubber, killing nearly half the population in

In the 1960s, it was the United States that was after

Congo's cobalt for its Cold War fighter jets, leading to

its support for a dictator who renamed the country Zaire and

MOBUTO SESE SEKO: [SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

SUROOSH ALVI: Today, it's the global demand for technology

that is inadvertently fueling the conflict in Congo.

Five million people have died in the Congo because of this

conflict since the mid '90s until about 2007.

The most since any war since World War II.

The government in Kinshasa says that the war is over, but

Kinshasa is a long way from the jungles of eastern Congo,

where most of the rebel groups and the minerals that finance

So we needed to go east to find out what was

One thing that had been drilled into our heads before

This is a country whose aircraft are banned from

Last year, a crash that killed 20 people was the result of a

crocodile escaping from a passenger's carry on luggage.

But with Goma being over 1,000 miles away, we didn't have

And as it turned out, that flight would be the most

comfortable experience of the days to come.

One thing we've noticed since we came here is that there are

I guess they're just burning their garbage.

But it kind of feels apocalyptic at times.

It's in eastern Congo, right on the Rwandan border.

This has been the epicenter of the conflict since 1994.

It's also the center for humanitarian aid.

There are 51 different international organizations

As you can see, there's UN guys everywhere around us.

We're also pretty close to the mines where coltan is

extracted from, and we're going to go check that out.

When we got to Goma, we met up with Tim Freccia, a veteran

crisis and conflict photographer who has worked in

He told us that we were under-dressed for our trip to

the cold mountain mining town of Numbi, so we went shopping.

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