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Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an ...
3 paź 2024 · Blood diamond, as defined by the United Nations (UN), any diamond that is mined in areas controlled by forces opposed to the legitimate, internationally recognized government of a country and that is sold to fund military action against that government.
A blood diamond, also known as a conflict diamond, is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance armed conflicts against legitimate governments. These diamonds are often mined using forced labor, including children, and are traded illegally to fund violent conflicts and human rights abuses.
By world definition, a blood diamond is when mining and trade directly or indirectly cause infringements in social and human rights. To put it simply, if a person was enslaved, raped, physically abused, tortured, mutilated, or killed to produce it, such a gem is termed a blood diamond.
1 lut 2010 · Eight years ago, in the aftermath of horrific abuses committed by West African rebel groups enriched by diamond wealth, an international body backed by the United Nations was founded to ensure...
Diamonds have funded brutal wars in countries such as Angola, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of people. There is a reason they are dubbed ‘Blood Diamonds’.
8 lis 2002 · Blood diamonds. Conflict diamonds got their start in 1992 in the bush war of Angola, where UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, seeking new ways to finance his army, looked to the country’s vast diamond fields to extend the smuggling business that his rebel movement had pioneered in the 1970s and 1980s.
