Sierra Leone 'blood diamonds' not forever - BBC News.
Conflict Diamonds Conflict diamonds are mined in Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Angola, Congo and Liberia, where unstable governments and various rebel groups are in constant conflict. Rebels and other armed insurgents mine diamonds and sell them to finance the purchase of weapons and ammunition. Common people such as farmers, including children, are forced to work in diamond mines and suffer.
A history of conflict diamonds in West Africa. Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, originally a British Colony, mined diamonds legitimately and profitably until its Independence in 1961. It was first mined in 1935 by De Beers, which had a 99-year contract granting it full control of all mining operations. After Sierra Leone’s independence, a series of corrupt leaders used the diamond trade purely to.
Blood diamonds are mainly associated with the African countries of Angola, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe. These precious stones have been around for a century or so, but it wasn’t until it financed both civil wars in Angola and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, that international attention was drawn to the horrors of these diamonds. Ever since then diamond-connected violence in Africa has been.
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