Message: 8 Issue 94 Dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:55:39 -0500 From: Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Blood Cobalt - The Chinese in Katanga Message-ID: <907599ce-3219-4a0d-be55-4b812f057...@gmail.com>
Roland I am so glad that you sent us the clip on the atrocities committed by the Chinese ....I watched the clip with dismay. Who invited the Chinese....themselves ...did they send an army.....Hardly' Exploitation of the Congo goes back for more than 100 years ....If our readers have the time please read Conrad's Heart of or Lord Jim written in 1901 or around that period ......It is about the Congo. Long before the Chinese were there there were Belgians and American Multinational Corporations ....there were strategic and also valuable resources bloody, gold timber and diamonds etc Corrupt African Leaders especially in the Congo, aided and abetted by at least one Western superpower ....Why did Dag Hamersjold die? Was Lumamba a Communist ??? About 1995 I was privileged to be requested by UNEP and IDRC to address nearly 30 graduate Geologists several were hydrologists mainly from Kenya and Uganda ... In passing I asked them whether they had heard of Kolton ...I was astonished ....nobody had a clue. I was in a dilemma .....What was happening was that a President of a neighbouring country was the main agent supplying Kolton to the Multinational...There is a scene where the helicopter lands on a field where a peasant was digging ..he tells the fellow that he will go and fetch his wife...<<<<They tell him that a woman will do his cooking and attend to his other needs. So that poor unfortunate fellow begins to dig ... I wrote a paper called the Dragon and the Butterfly ...You know in my world Dragons spit fire and in contrast the butterfly..is helpless. As I sat in the garden of my home 5 Sinza Road, at the University of DSM I saw the small butterfly descend from a height and fertilize the bougainville ....it supports life .....Not GREED and Violence This is supposed to be a footnote ....The person teaching Conrad to me in in 1959 in Makerere was an Englishman who was raised in Britain and thus escaped Hitlers Holocust ..... Are there parallels between Hitler and the CEO pushing for mineral wealth ..... There is another interesting angle.inn the cli[p that Roland sent..<<<<<.Oh Children do not go to school, >>>> Was it an Indian Catholic Nun trying to do something... I am so intrigued I am tempted to ask our Commission of Science and Technology that I give a lecture on<<<<When Can Resources not be a Curse .>>>> Without Kolton ....most of our ears would be burnt as we used mobiles Can the MNC including the Chinese be humane in a real sense ....not superficial sentiments Grandolfo - PS The Congo has nearly 70 % of all the Cobalt .....I like the blue colour ....the Chinese used it quite a bit for their porcelain but so did the Portuguese