Do you really believe a few kids are doing mining?
ROTFLMAO!
It’s not Congo, but when I was deployed to HOA, as late as OCT 2016, there were groups of malnourished, sick, and barefoot kids down to approximately four or five (maybe younger), either taken from parents, (or parents dead), living in groups without blankets or shelter, digging trenches with rudimentary and broken tools, for all kinds of stuff, including for graves.
There were sometimes Chinese, sometimes Somali or Kenyian al-Shabaab/al-Mujahhideen worker/soldiers involved, telling armed Somali guards what to do with the children. Sometimes won’t even see them until they crawl out of a trench or hole in the ground.
I could go on all day with stories related to children, our guys have encountered in countries all over Africa.
Honestly, for many, what we have experienced there is as bad, or harder to deal with than many other experiences.
That a four year old child is “picking through gravel/rock is nothing for me to believe, and forever familiar. This kind of thing really impacted me...