Transcript Blood Diamonds

Blood Diamonds
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Origin
• Blood diamonds or otherwise known as
conflict diamonds have originated in Africa.
• Africa is where 2/3 of our diamonds come
from.
• Conflict diamonds are diamonds that come
from hostile areas controlled by rebelling
parties against the government.
Background
• Conflict diamonds captured the world's
attention during the conflict in Sierra Leone in
the late 1990s. During this time, it is estimated
that conflict diamonds represented
approximately 4% of the world's diamond
production. Diamonds have also been used by
rebels to fund conflicts in Angola, Liberia,
Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of Congo
and the Republic of Congo.
Rebels
• Groups that take over whole villages
Killing others, wounding people, and
capturing men and children to work in the
mines.
Rebels rebel against the government using the
diamond money to buy weapons, illegal drugs,
and other illegal things.
• Between 4 percent and 15 percent of the
world total and generate annual trade
revenues of $7.5 billion per year.
• Between $350 million and $420 million worth
of Angolan diamonds were smuggled into
countries in Africa in 2000. That figure
represents about half of Angola's yearly
output and 5 percent of annual rough
diamond sales worldwide.
How are they smuggling the
diamonds?
• Smugglers will cut the back of a herd of
animals open and put the diamonds inside the
wound and stitch them back up.
• So many people just on the street also will buy
diamonds off of any person. Or you can find a
buyer very easily.
How to know your diamond is not a
conflict diamond.
• The Kimberley Process is a government program
created in 2002 to slow down the flow of conflict
diamonds. Rough diamonds that are used by
rebel movements to finance wars against their
governments. The Kimberley Process is the
process designed to ensure the origin of rough
diamonds from sources which are free of conflict
funded by diamond production.
The Kimberley Process
• It was set up to assure consumers that by
purchasing diamonds they were not financing
war and human rights abuses.