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Kila kitu na wakati yake… 📚 My book, Conflict Minerals Inc. is out now with Hurst and Oxford University Press. Reviewers say it’s “lucid, compassionate and personal”, and a “devastating and essential reading.” Here is to a few pictures and key points... 🧵 
As the subtitle says, the book tells a story of war, profit and white saviourism in eastern #Congo. Through the prism of #ConflictMinerals, it looks at how violence, business and intervention intersect in what was once Eurocentrically called “Africa’s World War.”
In the book, I develop two main arguments: I explain how multiple factors, rather than just natural resources, have driven the wars in #Congo and, hence, I show that the struggle against #ConflictMinerals failed to stop violence but triggered a series of new problems.
Cases of #pillage by corporate actors investigated and brought to justice are rare.
Very rare.
Still, TRIAL International in recent years has submitted no less than 4 such criminal cases to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of #Switzerland.
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Very rare.
Still, TRIAL International in recent years has submitted no less than 4 such criminal cases to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of #Switzerland.
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The first complaint concerned the role played by #Argor-Heraeus in refining several tonnes of gold illegally extracted from the #DRC.
The OAG decided in 2015 to close it down.
Not being a civil party, TRIAL was unable to appeal the decision.
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The OAG decided in 2015 to close it down.
Not being a civil party, TRIAL was unable to appeal the decision.
trialinternational.org/latest-post/sw…
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The second case, filed in 2016, concerns a Swiss businessman, Christoph Huber, currently under (very slow) investigation by the OAG for his role in the #looting of raw materials in the #DRC.
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