This 159-page report documents how local armed groups fighting for the control of gold mines and trading routes have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity using the profits from gold to fund their activities and buy weapons. The report provides details of how a leading gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, part of the international mining conglomerate Anglo American, developed links with one murderous armed group, the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), helping them to access the gold-rich mining site around the town of Mongbwalu in the northeastern Ituri district.
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ISBN: 1564323311
ISBN: 1564323311
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- The Curse of Gold
- I. Summary
- II. Recommendations
- III. Methodology
- IV. Background: Enriching the Elites
- V. Human Rights Abuses in the Mongbwalu Gold Mining Area
- VI. AngloGold Ashanti – Starting Gold Exploration Activities
- VII. Human Rights Abuses in the Durba Gold Mines and Trade Routes
- VIII. Trade in Tainted Gold
- IX. International Initiatives to Address Resource Exploitation in the DRC
- X. Conclusion
- XI. Acknowledgements
- XII. Appendices












