NP cell phones = dead gorillas

[Doug Millison]

>From Guerrilla News Network <http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/36.html>:
"...[T]he refined extract of Columbite-tantalite (coltan for short) is...
used in everything from mobile phones made by Nokia and Ericsson to computer
chips made by Intel... The Congo supplies 7% of the world's tantalum, and
demand is only growing. Almost all the Congolese tantalum comes from
rebel-controlled coltan mines where they maintain brutal control over the
local population... rebels have earned millions of dollars from western
technology companies... [S]ome call it Africa's World War. Since 1999,
according to some reports, 3 million people
<http://www.intrescom.org/mortality.cfm> have died. The war has destabilized
the entire region, involving troops from Congo, Rwanda, Angola, Zimbabwe,
Uganda and Namibia.

from: http://www.indymedia.org/

NP but that technology/society nexus...