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back out and phillips at now agree instead of just forget john prendergast
usa with enough project which is under the center for american progress
not one of the bright side
preparedness period for shipment
uh... so tell us what that uprising
well we started about a year-and-a-half ago in response to
the genocide in darfur for the horrible human rights crimes in congo
child soldiers abductions by the largest in sarmiento whether you go into these
terrible
manifestations of war genocide
revisit tool warren child solar crewmen
as a means to educate dimmer compiled with about what's going on
but also to demonstrate to them that there are things that we can do
in support of american foreign policy to bring some of these
corporal crises to resolution
so we don't have to keep spending billions of dollars a year on
humanitarian assistance in on peacekeeping forces there are solutions
all right so let me add tired about wanting to try it first
you know we own some of the genocide in darfur colin powell famously call it
genocide
what this genocide me what's the definition means that the entity usually
a government
targets a particular group of people on the basis of their identity
usually ethnicity or their race or their religion
and attempts to eradicate those people to eliminate them
in whole or in part that group of people using accesskey in whole or in part
isn't our four its
they're not trying to kill everybody of that rates are going now they've they've
killed maybe three hundred thousand return doesn't died as a resolve their
offenses
two-and-a-half million almost two and three chords million people have been
rendered homeless living in these camps either across the border and shattering
inside our four and then the government just turns on and off the age hap
so just a more lies is people drive reduces their ability to cope with the
kind of situation they're in loser different a division between or is is
there a difference between genocide holocaust
well the whole constant is really
solicitado rarely about what happened to the jews and they're during and and
others in the world war two
so bad i think there's a real feeling that
that was a unique event and that she's dead retains the all of us with a
capital age
and the genocide is a phenomenon we've seen over centuries
where usually estate attempts to destroy in whole or in part in particular group
of people alright i got you now what can we do about it is an excellent to a
question because
every time there's a republican in office democrats will say i can't
believe you didn't do anything in the democrat will come to office
and republicans will then
him using lee
say arguably didn't do it and i'd like as if
ever care but but seriously but you don't need a psychic used to do anything
but is that appearance wrong but what what are we doing and what can we
with good news is it's a lot that can be done between nothing and bombing you
know we don't have to send in the eighty second or airborne everytime there's
some kind of a
of initiative rises to the to the level of genocide there's a lot of things we
can do diplomatically economic sanctions
use of all kinds of different tools state craft of diplomacy
that uh... that are available to us
so in the case of for example
in the case of congo in north eastern congo during earlier part of this decade
when we saw the possibility of genocide
between two groups of people
very similar to the two into the sea and in rwanda
in that particular region european set in a force and they basically got in
between the two groups and prevented a genocide
so it didn't come across to you know we probably twenty or thirty lives of the
european soldiers
for the entire year of their occupation
now those twenty or thirty families grieve
but it was an extraordinary example of one
particular
force is utilized
we can actually stop the genocide from happening so would would you suggest
that as normal course like for example what's happening with condo real quick
tell us what is happening
and what could we do about that specific that's the amazing thing is that this
this is the dead this war in the world since
the holocaust back in the nineteen forties
five and
a quarter million people have died in the last twelve years in congress in the
old and there's nothing even remotely like it
anyway rally you know i have to be honest at if you know i don't mean to be
a day
drug about this that i'm skeptical about that number okay
now i don't know anything about that's what we have reserved the right but it
just seems so overwhelming
that either its
gross neglect by the media which it entirely as possible right
what is that because of starvation instead of to define it quarter-million
people get killed murdered very question
raises another all that bad that you were most of
the people who died in the ethiopian famine
mostly people who died in somalia before we send in troops mostly people have
died in congo died as it they were just place because of the war
and then they died from
health or nutrition related diseases
that you away at their billy to survive
so basically in congo you have this incredibly deadly war
but it's fueled
by our consumer demands
strangely enough
and inadvertently
by are of laptops and cell phones and ipods and all rest of the kind of
electronic devices we use of a daily basis
are powered by minerals
that our mind in the congo
so you're thomson which uh... creates the vibration mechanism on your
telephone your we have
ten which is the solder in the circuit board of the every electronica product
were you can look around this room
and uh...
and tantalum is the restores the electricity
in them so we comma treaties ten consonant ample
who've heard of these things but they end up actually
leading directly to the deadliest for the world
so that's the last time i put myself on a vibrant
but they do uh... here's the good news is that
instead of them some people will turn away some people feel guilty but some
rules ok will going to do about exact let's use our cell phones the call
what we are asking people to do
is to call up your cellphone manufacture call up your cellphone realtor retailer
or email them
and say
i want
to buy someday i'd like the bias conflict freephone
and whoever is able to give me
that's conflict free a reprieve phone i'm gonna switch carriers and go to them
so create the market demand
for products that are
conscientious about what they're doing two human beings as they make in in
their creation at real quick tell me what reprieve product needs
that means that
there has been an audited uh...
verification down all the way to the so the supply chain of that device in your
hand all the way down to the point of origin where the minerals come from
where the raw materials come from to make your phone
and they've verified through independent audits that there would no conflict was
related to the making a rather the mining in the exporting of those men
speakers in these complex fare as part of the loop way of taking over more
territory setter they're going in a systematically raping the women in that
area yeah it's a means of social control if we look back at
some of the day the horrific
wars of the twentieth century you saw that
increasingly
rate was being used as a tool of war and the tools social control in congo
the motley demolishes
that are vying for the control of this very very lucrative
mineral trade
use *** to humiliate and destroying subjugate
populations in areas that they're attempting to control the mines are
driving the uh... rival militias out
and if you want to
in some way shape or form
destroyed the the the spirit of your opponent
you attack the winner
and finally what should the united states government to in a place like a
would also good news here
is that congress is finally learning about this issue so we have the
beginnings of legislation we have a bill in the senate
said called the compro congo conflict minerals bill
very simple as eight nine one
which is uh...
the addresses directly this whole cut me a trading copper mills tries to create
more transparency and responsibility on the part of corporations
and the house is just about to introduce their version of the bill
senator boxer has already
sponsored the the senate version bill but that feinstein hasn't
so we have about ten co-sponsors over the last uh... month or so since it was
introduced response will include corporations upmeyer opponent friends
tell me that they just take that responsibility without any government
inference at all
but it is very responsible
and okay as much about the profits i'm surprised find out that the government
needs to
motive in that direction that's really surprised fafa perhaps not surprising
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