General Assembly adopts resolution on "conflict diamonds" Crucial issue in fuelling wars ... On 1 December 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, unanimously, a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict,
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Is it news or propaganda? How can you tell? Read and learn how Real History informs the present, empowering you to wake up and smell what's brewing. ... They are called either blood diamonds or the much less evocative term, conflict diamonds. They can come from Angola, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, or The Congo.
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Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone ... History of Diamonds: ... Eliminating Blood Diamonds:
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See the Official website for Blood Diamonds on The History Channel®, the provocative documentary examining the human cost of the illicit global diamond trade. ... The human cost of the illicit global diamond trade is examined in the provocative documentary BLOOD DIAMONDS only on THE HISTORY CHANNEL.
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Learn more about Blood Diamonds on The History Channel®, the provocative documentary examining the human cost of the illicit global diamond trade. ... Precious gems obtained through violence, suffering and corruption; BLOOD DIAMONDS on The History Channel®;
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Blood Diamonds, or Conflict Diamonds are diamonds mined out of conflict, forced labor of men, women, and children, death, terrorism, and destruction. Diamonds are often associated with beauty, wealth, power, ownership, and love. ... Know something about The history of blood diamonds? We want to hear your view. Write now!
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The world history of blood diamonds possibly began in 1998 when the United Nations placed sanctions on the sale of diamonds from Angola, forbidding countries from buying from them. It was estimated at the time that about 20 percent of the diamond production was going to fund the war in that country.
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By giving up their monopoly, they will now be permitted to sell directly into the lucrative American market for the first time in history. But what is pure genius is that by going public against blood diamonds, they have simultaneously tainted much of the competition.
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This chapter tells the previoiusly unknown early history of "blood diamonds". You will learn, among other things, how a leading US diamond merchant, with strong CIA and White House connections.
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