Films by Frank Piasecki Poulsen

Denmark, Germany 2010, 85 min
by Frank Piasecki Poulsen

Phones are financing war in DR CongoWe love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 yea