Blood Diamond Book Report

Sierra leone is a very poor country but it has a large amount of diamonds and these diamond should have brought wealth to the country and its people. Instead these diamond were used to fuel a war starting in 1991 to 2001.The people during the blood diamond civil war in sierra leone were used as slave by the R.U.F to mine diamonds and were put through very poor living conditions. This is similar to Wiesel 's experiences in the holocaust in night because he was put into a work camp and was also put through poor living conditions.This is also different because the people in the blood diamond were not forced to work or killed because of their beliefs or how they looked or acted.

This war was between a rebel group called the R.U.F a group of rebels and the government of Sierra leone.The R.U.F said that they were fighting for a democracy but they would also fight and kill innocent civilians. The R.U.F used diamonds to fuel a brutal civil war they would sell the diamonds or trade them for weapons for ten years …show more content…
The R.U.F was originally was a rebel group trying to make a democracy. The Holocaust started with taking out democracy and switch to a dictatorship. The natzis won over there country by wirting a book called mein kampf. The rebels did not have control of the country and forced children to into fighting for them in the war.The blood diamond was not something that just happened in sierra leone three civil war were fuel by blood diamonds.

Both the people in the blood diamond war and the holocaust thought that they were fighting for a good cose. The citizens also thought that the R.U.F and the natzis had a good cose in the beginning they . The citizens were both taken and were used to make money. The natzis stole the jew posesions used them to found the war and make produces for the war. The R.U.F kidnapped the citizens stole any gems they had and put them in mines to get diamonds to fund the