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Westview Press
February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
280 pages
ISBN: 0813342201
EAN: 9780813342207
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Non-Fiction
Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the
international diamond trail of brutality, horror, and profit
- providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of
global consequence. 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.
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