Paris // Some multinationals working in conflict zones are turning to ethically dubious practices to keep their factories operating, employees working and goods flowing.French-Swiss cement manufacturer LafargeHolcim admitted this month that it resorted to “unacceptable” practices in 2013 and 2014 to keep its Jalabiya plant in Syria running until it was seized by ISIL. In effect this amounted to the financing of armed groups.Recent history is full of scandals involving businesses paying armed groups and fanning the flames of war.Banana companies paid paramilitary groups in Colombia in the 1990s and 2000s, jewellers fed the trade in “blood diamonds” in Liberia …read more
Source: The National
