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Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place
Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. Rich in �conflict minerals”--valuable resources mined in the midst of armed conflict and egregious human rights abuses--this remote and lawless land is home to deposits of gold and diamonds as well as co...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
July 1st 2011
by Chicago Review Press
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A formless, untheorized travelogue through the hellish postmodern battlespace of Eastern Congo. There's a little potted history of how Congo got to be such a cauldron of humanitarian abuse, and a vague sense that there are faraway factors that drive the cycles of violence, but no sense of how Congo's travails are symptoms of larger problems, or that the things that go on in Congo are continuous and importantly similar to problems elsewhere in the world. The total inattention to the demand-side o...more
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Profoundly depressing work from an experienced agent of the IPWR at the Hague about the eastern Congo--not a history of the region's problems, but anecdotes from the ground displaying the intractability of the problems, including the deep resentment of the ICC's war crimes trials, the staggering corruption in joint Congolese-Rwandan military operations, rogue militias making money charging observers for access to refugee camps and interviews, charcoal production and destruction of wildlife habit...more
The author, Peter Eichstaedt is a writer and editor who has worked and traveled in Africa. Here he writes of the eastern Congo, a region being destroyed by an entrenched war the scale of which exceeds any previous conflict by any measure.
The book's chapters are each like their own essay on the various topics such as mining, armies, individual locations, the effects of war on people, the rape epidemic, the minerals themselves, reform proposals and others. There are descriptions of mines, a buying...more
The book's chapters are each like their own essay on the various topics such as mining, armies, individual locations, the effects of war on people, the rape epidemic, the minerals themselves, reform proposals and others. There are descriptions of mines, a buying...more
A disturbing book that highlights one of the biggest tragedies in the world. My goal when reading it was to try and picture individual people rather than the masses. When put in difficult circumstances us humans can inflict horrific things on each other.
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Peter Eichstaedt is the Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace Reporting in The Hague. A veteran journalist, he has worked in locations worldwide, including Slovenia, Moldova, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, and Uganda, where he was a senior editor for Uganda Radio Network. He is the author of If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans."
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