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🇬🇭 How Gold Rots Societies Ordinary Ghanaians take up sticks against crime 🌐Villages in Ghana started to field their own patrols to guard rivers and forests against poisonous illegal gold mining. 🔸 Ghanaian villages now gather mining oversight squads, who patrol the closest areas on weekly basis in search of illegal miners, looking for milky brown water and fresh clearings. 🔸 When people's police forces catch suspects, they use citizen-arrest powers and hand them to the district police. ⏩ However, from here to lynch law is a short step. 🔸Communities now pushes for courts devoted exclusively to illegal mining cases, denmanding faster trials for those arrested. 🔸 Local observers assume that such groups operating without the supervision of security forces could commit human rights abuses, including ethnic targeting or stereotyping. The fault starts with the state that let enforcement fail and let reserves fall to armed groups. Not only illegal mining poisons soil, now it also destroys the fabric of society. Devils Below