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Blood diamonds, tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones, Greg Campbell

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Blood diamonds, tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones, Greg Campbell

Language

eng

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Includes glossary, bibliographical references, and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood diamonds

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electronic resource

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dictionariesbibliography

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847070652

Responsibility statement

Greg Campbell

Sub title

tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones

Summary

First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies. These repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the consequences of overlooking this African tragedy are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global. Updated with a new epilogue

Table Of Contents

Glossary -- Prologue : Impact : The price of diamonds -- 1. From pits of despair to altars of love : Kenema, Sierra Leone -- 2. Diamond junction : a smuggler's paradise : Freetown, Sierra Leone -- 3. The gun runners: from Tongo to Tiffany's : Monrovia, Liberia -- 4. Death by diamonds : operation no living thing : Freetown, Sierra Leone -- 5. The syndicate : a diamond is forever : London -- 6. Waging peace : taking the conflict out of "conflict diamonds" : Makeni, Sierra Leone -- 7. The way station : next stop, Liberia : Kailahun, Sierra Leone -- 8. "The base" : Osama's war chest : West Africa, Afghanistan, New York -- 9. The rough road ahead: mining for peace : Freetown, Sierra Leone -- 10. Truth and reconciliation : recovering from the diamond war : Sierra Leone, Belgium -- Coda : Koidu, Sierra Leone -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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