First off they are light, valuable, easy to smuggle, and with numerous ways to hide them to clear borders. Diamonds are also one of the most sought out products, and in countries like America, seem like a crucial part of our lives. It is much easier to control and restrain a diamond mine with many laborers under a leaders belt following his every step, much like how the cotton gin needed slaves to build and become an industry. Furthermore, diamond laborers would have a hard time stealing these diamonds because the leader of their rebellion area will check each worker thoroughly in case they will try to hide it anywhere in their body. If the diamond is found they will immediately be killed, proving the title of blood diamonds perfect again. The ultimate way a diamond goes from rock to money is intelligent, and beautifully precise. The diamonds are mined through slaves and then collected in medium sized amounts. Next the camp general will send one of his best men to smuggle the diamond through Liberia(or any other African Nation) using methods like cutting a slit in goats and inserting the diamonds under the skin, or even using fake teeth to conceal them. Once done, they are taken to a middle man, showed to diamond examiners, sold, mixed in in with the other diamonds, and put into production. A company that is trying to stop the way diamonds are accepted and verified is the Kimberly …show more content…
Drugs are sold in secret, and doing drugs, like taking on the pursuit of diamond mining in these countries such as Zimbabwe, takes a big risk. Life is not good in these countries and the risk is that to which your country could go downhill rapidly, become shunned from possible U.S diamond trading, and feasibly leading to no U.S trade at all. But on the other hand, millions of dollars is left open to mine for these diamonds, and it’s not almost whether you have diamonds, but if you’re willing to get your people involved with it, possibly addicted, and then slowly relying on it. As nations such as these in northwest Africa show, The other way that this can be related back to the drug metaphor is that selling drugs can be quick relief for many people to make a living, even though this will not be long term or last forever. This is a perfect parallel of how countries sell diamonds as a quick fix on poverty. This is not providing them with long term security, making the dependability of selling these diamonds goes way up, leading to a cycle. Moreover, the rebellion would like for different groups and gangs of people to be exploited, and known for power, very evident in Sierra Leone. The prospect of money is recognizable as the main capitalization goal that these diamonds are reaching and being used for. The amount of diamond influence and risk is also directly reflected onto the level and