Congo is Bleeding: Silent Holocaust

The US, UK and France are funding and using the Rwandan and Ugandan military to take a natural resource called Coltan from Congo which is used for electronic devices. 48 women and children are killed, displaced and raped every hour over this resource. 

Imagine that, human life comes second to invading for a resource. Also no offense these major superpower countries including the U.S love to steal resources from other countries. It’s all about greed, money, land and resources for them, they’ll kill whoever so they can become rich. It’s sickening and disgusting. 

For anyone who thinks slavery is a thing of the past, it’s still happening. 

"The lucrative nature of cobalt mining means that all efforts to ensure production can match the eternally elastic global demand are put in. The east of the DRC, where the mines are located, is therefore home to nearly 40,000 child laborers digging for the minerals that would eventually be utilized by Apple, Google and other giant corporations.

Global development expert Siddharth Kara has written extensively on the asymmetric relationship between cobalt production in the DRC as well as what the mineral means to tech giants. In 2018, Kara wrote that “children were working 12-hour days, some for just $2 a day, digging and hauling sacks of cobalt-rich rocks, in a chaotic scramble for the hugely valuable commodity.”

These are the poorest of Congolese with little to no safety net and are at the mercy of taskmasters who are usually corrupt government employees or even rebel forces. This brings us to problems associated with another mineral, coltan, which has led to insecurity in the same eastern region of the DRC."

Resource: https://face2faceafrica.com/article/congoisbleeding-new-hashtag-draws-attention-to-deadly-exploitation-in-congolese-mines

Please keep them in your prayers, no one should be abused or forced into labor over natural resources. Human life is more important than any resource, property or resource.

May Allah eradicate this evil and protect and free the victims, and grant them healing and support!