Lawyers for the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sent Apple a cease-and-desist order Thursday threatening legal action unless the tech giant stops using allegedly illegally exported minerals harvested from the DRC’s conflict zones and smuggled through Rwanda.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), which reviewed the cease-and-desist letter prepared by French lawyers working for the Congolese government, Apple allegedly “sold technology made with minerals sourced from a region whose population is being devastated by grave human rights violations.” Those violations in