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This is nothing against them; they are intrepid people who have accomplished a great deal. But
Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas were each the first to publicly be the “man
of the woods,” the boundary-penetrating emissary from us to them, the then inscrutable great
apes, returning to us with the first widely distributed (thanks to the National Geographic Soci-
ety's gazillions of dollars worth of wonderful publicity) firsthand accounts of deep experience
with the
other
, when such experiences were novel. That time, that opportunity, has passed, in
part because we are now saturated with similar tales from many nonhuman realms, and because
of the work at several sites by those bonobo researchers themselves and their more recent col-
leagues. BCI's original goal of creating an alliance for bonobo conservation has been taken on
by the USFWS [United States Fish and Wildlife Service], Arcus Foundation, and IUCN [Inter-
national Union for Conservation of Nature]/SSC [Species Survival Commission]/PSG [Prim-
ate Specialist Group]-backed Bonobo Working Group.
Africa's Great War
123
He declared that the
Stearns,
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
, 168-69.
123
He explains that though Kabila
Stearns, in
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
, notes that Kab-
ila's position of power was in no way assured; an independent poll suggested that only 14 percent
of Kinois would have voted for him (171). Thomas Turner writes in
The Congo Wars
that “Kabila
was supposed to be weak enough to obey his backers yet strong enough to secure their common
borders” (37).
123
When Kabila, needing a loyal army
Stearns,
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
, 183.
124
Rwanda and Uganda sold
In
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
, Jason Stearns writes:
The minerals were transported, processed, and consumed by companies and consumers else-
where, especially in Europe, Asia, and the United States. In some cases, these companies had
close relationships with rebel groups. For example, the Belgium-based company Cogecom
bought tin and coltan directly from the RCD monopoly, sending money into RCD coffers.
Another joint venture by American and Dutch businessmen, Eagle Wings Resources, engaged
Paul Kagame's brother-in-law as its local representative, which gave it easier and cheaper ac-
cess to the Congolese minerals. These companies then sold their minerals on to large process-
ing companies, including U.S.-based Cabot Corporation, Chinese Ningxia, and German H. C.
Starck. The transport was assured by multinational logistics companies such as the state airline
of Belgium, Sabena, while financing was supplied by large regional banks and, in one case, by
Citibank. (302-3)
124
When Rwandan and Ugandan forces
UN Security Council,
Report of the Inter-Agency Assess-
ment Mission to Kisangani, S/2000/1153
, December 4, 2000, referenced in Stearns,
Dancing in the
Glory of Monsters
, 285-90, 292.
124
The Second Congo War
Ian Bannon and Paul Collier eds.,
Natural Resources and Violent Con-
flict: Options and Actions
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003); Léonce Ndikumana and Kisan-
gani F. Emizet, “The Economics of Civil War: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo,”
in
Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis
vol. 1,
Africa
, (Washington, DC: World Bank
and Oxford University Press, 2005); both referenced in Turner,
The Congo Wars
, 2.
124
The Congolese political scientist
Nzongola,
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
, 227.
124
As Dena Montague writes
UN Security Council,
Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal
Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo
, April 12, 2001, 29, referenced in Dena Montague, “Stolen Goods: Coltan and Conflict
in the Democratic Republic of Congo,”
SAIS Review
22 no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2002): 103-18,
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