Blood Diamond
This story is about a diamond smuggler mercenary and a man who had lost his family to rebels who kidnapped his son for work in a diamond mine. Blood diamonds are not named for their color, but rather because of the very real blood which is shed in order to mine them. when you wear a blood diamond on your hand, then you really do have blood on your hands. Campbell neatly ties into how blood diamonds end up on the ring finger of brides while their use has funded a war which has ripped Sierra Leone apart for decades. He follows the trail as they are smuggled from West Africa to New York, London and Antwerp frequently with the cooperation of the legitimate diamond industry.
Campbell demonstrates how the operations work aon a country or a nation. First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have turned out to be the source of the worst war, cruelty and brutality in African history as well as a good example of how a natural resources could corrupt a man’s heart and his inhumanity to his fellow men. …show more content…
This may not sound as a huge amount, but keeping in mind that even this small quantity has resulted in an estimated 4 million deaths and displaced more than 6 million Africans, it becomes worrisome.Greg Campbell’s book set in Sierra Leone is an in-depth study of the history of diamond mining and the part it plays in fueling civil wars in Africa, especially in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo and in particular the one that was affected the most Sierra Leone for over a
This story is about a diamond smuggler mercenary and a man who had lost his family to rebels who kidnapped his son for work in a diamond mine. Blood diamonds are not named for their color, but rather because of the very real blood which is shed in order to mine them. when you wear a blood diamond on your hand, then you really do have blood on your hands. Campbell neatly ties into how blood diamonds end up on the ring finger of brides while their use has funded a war which has ripped Sierra Leone apart for decades. He follows the trail as they are smuggled from West Africa to New York, London and Antwerp frequently with the cooperation of the legitimate diamond industry.
Campbell demonstrates how the operations work aon a country or a nation. First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have turned out to be the source of the worst war, cruelty and brutality in African history as well as a good example of how a natural resources could corrupt a man’s heart and his inhumanity to his fellow men. …show more content…
This may not sound as a huge amount, but keeping in mind that even this small quantity has resulted in an estimated 4 million deaths and displaced more than 6 million Africans, it becomes worrisome.Greg Campbell’s book set in Sierra Leone is an in-depth study of the history of diamond mining and the part it plays in fueling civil wars in Africa, especially in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo and in particular the one that was affected the most Sierra Leone for over a