Denunciation — The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tribunal Denunciation No. 2026-D-006
Issued Orthen, Ignis 22 • Anno Covenant II
(10 April 2026)

Finding

For over two decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have endured armed conflict that has killed millions of people. Not thousands. Millions.

This is the longest-running humanitarian catastrophe of the modern era, and it is sustained not by ancient hatred but by global demand. The cobalt in your phone. The coltan in your laptop. The lithium in your electric car. The minerals that power the future of the developed world are extracted from the ground of the Congo by people who see none of the wealth, and bear all of the violence.

The Record

Armed groups — some foreign-backed, some state-sponsored, some operating as proxies for neighboring governments — have fought for control of mining regions in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri for decades. Civilians are the primary casualties.

Mass sexual violence has been used as a weapon of territorial control on a scale that the United Nations has called "the worst in the world." Women, girls, men, and boys have been subjected to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, and mutilation — not as collateral damage, but as deliberate strategy.

Children have been conscripted as soldiers. Villages have been burned to clear mining areas. Displaced populations number in the millions.

The international community has maintained a peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the DRC since 1999 — the longest-running UN peacekeeping operation in the world. The killing has not stopped. The mission has been asked to withdraw.

Meanwhile, the supply chain continues. The minerals leave the Congo. The money does not return. The violence is treated as an internal African problem, even as every smartphone on earth contains its product.

What the Covenant Declares

We denounce every armed group that has committed atrocities against the Congolese people in pursuit of mineral wealth.

We denounce every neighboring state that has armed, funded, or directed proxy forces in the eastern Congo.

We denounce every multinational corporation that has purchased conflict minerals while claiming ignorance of their origin.

We denounce every government that has treated the Congo as a source of raw materials rather than a nation of human beings.

And we denounce the fiction that this is a local problem. It is a global crime with local victims. The demand comes from everywhere. The suffering stays in the Congo.

To the Congolese people: the world has taken from you for over a century — from Leopold to the present hour. You are owed a debt that no supply chain audit will ever repay. We see the debt. We name it.

Entered into the Covenant Ledger under the Tribunal Seal.
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