Katlyn Beppler
-Blood Diamonds conflict-
Professionals claim the illegal sale of blood diamonds had composed billions of dollars to fund civil wars and other conflicts in numerous African nations, such as Sierra Leone, Democratic republic of congo(DRC), liberia, and ivory coast. The reason that learning about the blood diamonds conflict is so important is because we need to realize all the things that happened during that time. Just like mr. Sawyer says “ not to offend you guys, but the younger generation these days have less empathy towards things such as war and battles, that's why you see other people laughing at it so much”. I agree with some of the things that he had to say, it seems like the farther away it gets the more apathy people have towards the …show more content…
At the same time it is different because Night was about jews. The blood diamond conflict occurred in africa: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, the Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this case the oppressors are rebel groups. But they are not the only bad ones here, the governments and mining companie also commit wickedly cruel offences in africa’s diamond fields. The victims who suffer through all of this madness are the citizens. The women and children were raped, “ Girls and young women who managed to escape from the rebels or who were released, suffer a variety of consequences such as sexually transmitted infections. These include HIV/AIDS, post traumatic stress disorder, damaged bladders, and extreme anxiety ”[Johnson]. Most of the survivors are pregnant or single mothers of “rebel babies”.The rebels seized citizens and modifying them. “Usually they would cut off both the
-Blood Diamonds conflict-
Professionals claim the illegal sale of blood diamonds had composed billions of dollars to fund civil wars and other conflicts in numerous African nations, such as Sierra Leone, Democratic republic of congo(DRC), liberia, and ivory coast. The reason that learning about the blood diamonds conflict is so important is because we need to realize all the things that happened during that time. Just like mr. Sawyer says “ not to offend you guys, but the younger generation these days have less empathy towards things such as war and battles, that's why you see other people laughing at it so much”. I agree with some of the things that he had to say, it seems like the farther away it gets the more apathy people have towards the …show more content…
At the same time it is different because Night was about jews. The blood diamond conflict occurred in africa: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, the Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this case the oppressors are rebel groups. But they are not the only bad ones here, the governments and mining companie also commit wickedly cruel offences in africa’s diamond fields. The victims who suffer through all of this madness are the citizens. The women and children were raped, “ Girls and young women who managed to escape from the rebels or who were released, suffer a variety of consequences such as sexually transmitted infections. These include HIV/AIDS, post traumatic stress disorder, damaged bladders, and extreme anxiety ”[Johnson]. Most of the survivors are pregnant or single mothers of “rebel babies”.The rebels seized citizens and modifying them. “Usually they would cut off both the