{"id":2055,"date":"2012-11-29T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T21:27:39","slug":"conflicts-over-minerals-in-eastern-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/2012\/11\/29\/conflicts-over-minerals-in-eastern-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicts over Minerals in Eastern Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows the conflicts that arise in the Eastern Congo over the minerals that make up our hi-tech cellphones and electronics. Conflicts have been going on for years, and recently the Rwanda-backed M23 militia has taken control of DRC&#8217;s city of Goma (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/11\/28\/us-congo-democratic-idUSBRE8AR0AO20121128\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aF-sJgcoY20&amp;feature=player_embedded[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video shows the conflicts that arise in the Eastern Congo over the minerals that make up our hi-tech cellphones and electronics. Conflicts have been going on for years, and recently the Rwanda-backed M23 militia has taken control of DRC&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/2012\/11\/29\/conflicts-over-minerals-in-eastern-congo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[647026,181443,48],"tags":[647031,647027,647029,266892],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflicts-and-justice","category-consumption","category-video","tag-blood-minerals","tag-congo","tag-militias","tag-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/idrnblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}