www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/25/congo-coltan
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/congos-tragedy-the-war-the-world-forgot-476929.html
www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/718/en/metals_in_mobile_phones_help_finance_congo_atrocities
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/17/2493102.htm
www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/168/33658.html
news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=caf45b19006c581bb39ebf5ab3203283
www.afjn.org/focus-campaigns/promote-peace-d-r-congo/30-commentary/580-how-is-the-conflict-in-the-congo-linked-to-the-cassiterite-trade-boom.html
www.globalissues.org/article/442/guns-money-and-cell-phones
www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/69/Congo.html

Some excerpts from the above linked articles,

One of the precious metals mined in eastern Congo is coltan. It is used in many common products: mobiles, computers, digital cameras, GPS equipment, airbags, hearing aids and even pacemakers. While 80% of the world’s known coltan reserves are in eastern Congo, only about 1% of the metal sold on the open market is Congolese.

The reality is that most of Congo’s coltan is sold illegally and the revenue, instead of going towards the country’s development, is helping to fund the ongoing violence.

Coltan is a metal that conducts heat unusually brilliantly. It is contained in your mobile, your lap-top, your son’s PlayStation – and 80 per cent of the world’s supplies sit beneath the Democratic Republic of Congo.

There is a direct causal link between the metals trade in eastern DRC and atrocities perpetrated by armed groups against Congolese civilians.

Even though Coltan is extracted in Brazil, Thailand and much of it from Australia –the prime producer of Coltan on a world level– it is in Africa where 80% of the world reserves are to be found. Within this continent, the Democratic Republic of Congo concentrates over 80% of the deposits

I have provided more than enough proof, now please try to disprove this with more than just saying “no you’re wrong.”

You’re claiming that there is some special metal that is only in the congo and we steal it from them or something.

No such metal exists.

You’ve been lied to.

How hard is that to comprehend?

I didn’t say Hitler was half Jewish, that Nazi guy did. It’s not that hard to comprehend really.
So plastics are made from compnonents that require mining that is somehow identical to me talking about a specific metal that is available only from sources in Africa?

What you said was not right, you’re just really angry and you want everyone to be angry too, especially over black people and Africa.

Thank you.

Well then that’s all on him.

He’s talking about the first world, built off of British ingenuity and based on the fundamentals of Rome such as law.

Hitler wasn’t half Jewish. The fact that you’re clinging to debunked bullshit of that degree speaks volumes.

Plus the whole purity vs semetic blood is grossly overblown by blowhards. But anyway.

Plastics aren’t metals? Are they made from components that require mining? They are? Oh. So what I said was right and you need to quit being so close minded under the guise of being a champion of being open minded.

Thank you.

At dieA, Hitler didn’t start killing Jews until he became a real pain in the ass when he invaded other countries, so your analogy doesn’t work.

I guess you would have fully supported a full invasion of Rwanda in 1994 to stop the genocide, right? Or would that just be another example of a western country imposing it’s will on a poor, defensless African nation?