18-09-2009 AllAfrica.com: Peace Campaigners Turn up Heat on Apple Over Conflict Minerals

Statements made by John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, in the interview on the AllAfrica.com website:

That's why we're going straight at the electronic companies. We've got to force Apple, Intel, all those companies to change the way they're procuring downstream their raw materials that allow for the electronics to work, because our electronics are funding the conflict in the Congo and producing this kind of human misery. Unacceptable! We've got to change that. It's going to be hard.

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If the natural resource base in the Congo were producing 40 to 50% of these resources, we'd be in trouble. We'd have a different strategy. We don't want a situation where Apple would double the price of an i-pod. If they do it right, we should see no impact. The impact it would have is on the mafia. That's what happened in Liberia, and Sierra Leone and Angola.