DRC ELECTION TODAY AVZ concerns, page-81

Maybe you didn't bring up the BRITISH.

One of the companies featured in the report is THAISARCO, the world's fifth-largest tin-producing company, owned by British metals giant, AMC. THAISARCO's main supplier, Congo-based Panju, sells cassiterite and coltan from mines controlled by the FDLR. Another company is the UK-based Afrimex, already found by the British government in 2008 to be in breach of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises for buying from suppliers who made payments to a rebel group.

The British government has yet to take any concrete action on this information.Global Witness is calling for the following actions:Companies trading in minerals from the DRC should carry out thorough due diligence to ensure that they are not funding warring parties;
The DRC and other governments should cut off warring parties' access to the mines and to international trade routes and external networks;Home governments should hold to account their companies for involvement in the illicit mineral trade from DRC.