Blood Diamonds Then and Now

When Blood Diamonds were first a new business, people were still catching on and trying to take advantage of it.  Now that it has gotten to a more extreme situation, we have been taking more precaution towards it.  Blood Diamonds are a risky business, but now we are really making an effort in trying to fix it.  Organizations have been contributing to helping the cause.  One day Blood Diamonds will be under control

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Blood Diamond Country

Blood Diamonds are a bad influence to a country. Blood Diamonds are illegal in the global market, so when a country is a good source for diamonds, like Sierra Leone, they will not be able to sell those diamonds if there are Blood Diamond mining happening in that country. The country will not be able to get revenue from the diamonds they mine and poverty will rise. The country becomes scarier for tourists to visit because when there are Blood Diamond mining there is violence. The citizens of that country who are being forced to work in Blood Diamond mines will only be able to focus on diamond mining, which means education will plummet making the country less educated than it already is. Also the country will not be able to progress in anything else if everyone is focused in mining for diamonds and war.

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Blood Diamond Video

A video about Blood Diamonds in Africa

How Blood Diamonds Influence Warlords

Blood Diamonds are money and power to African Warlords.  Forces will fight over them at all costs.  Blood Diamonds are fuel to the warlord's power.  They force slaves and workers to mine the diamonds up for personal gain.  Rebel leaders and warlords do not have a single bit of compassion in their body. Even children are foreced to sift throught rivers and dig through every square inch of soil, like an adult blood diamond worker woudl.  There are different groups of people that mine these diamonds.  These groups will fight and argue to gain business from outsiders.  They sell these diamonds to outsiders illegally and become wealthy.  It's easy money, because the warlords pay the slaves and workers a minimal amount of money and gain a large profit

Blood Diamonds Today

Today, the Central African Republic (a.k.a. C.A.R.) have been recently banned from diamond trade. A rebel force called Seleka overthrew the government and took over the country about a year ago. They have been suspected of war crimes and blood diamond trading. Because of this, the C.A.R. has been banned.