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Here's the real problem: " Congo’s 2002 Mining Code stipulates that ... mining can only take place in designated zones by registered miners. The failure of the

Here's the real problem: " Congo’s 2002 Mining Code stipulates that ... mining can only take place in designated zones by registered miners. The failure of the government to assign sufficient areas has led to an increase in illegal mining at unauthorized sites, Amnesty said."

anon1385 11y ago
The real problem is that there's a brutal civil war. The idea that the origin of the problem is government overregulation is laughable.
- seunosewa 11y ago
  It's government inefficiency, not over-regulation. Regulation is essential to preventing abusive labour practices, but when the regulators are not efficient enough to provide licences to good guys who want follow the rules, bad guys who don't give a damn about the rules will take over. Unless Amnesty International is misinformed, this is at least one of the main reasons for this problem.