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A 3 page research paper that investigates what conflict diamonds are, and why this topic is controversial in terms of blood, death and the world's poor. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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used to fund military action in opposition to those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the Security Council (Fisher-Thompson). For example, Sierra Leone has rich diamonds mines,
but little else, as it is an extremely poor country. Civil war, throughout the 1990s, tore Sierra Leone apart, as various factions fought for control of its diamonds mines ("The
High Price" 20). In this awful war, "hundreds of thousands of people died," as a guerilla group, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), backed by Liberian president Charles Taylor, battled with
the government for control of the diamonds fields ("Blood Diamonds...Curse"). What is being done to limit their distribution? The "Kimberley Process" refers to an international partnership that works to
control and monitor the global diamond trade and ensure that the diamonds entering the market were not mined under conditions that are objectionable in terms of human rights, such as
diamonds that have been used to fuel conflict and civil war (Fisher-Thompson). The U.S. government supports the Kimberley Process and Congress passed the Clean Diamond Trade Act in April 2003
(Fisher-Thompson). Director Philip Claes, of the World Diamond Center in Antwerp, states that prior to the Kimberley Process, conflict diamonds "accounted for 4 to 15 percent of rough diamonds traded
worldwide," but today, "conflict diamonds account for only 0.2 percent" of the diamond trade ("Blood Diamonds...Curse"). The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) recently called for a ban on
diamonds mined in Zimbabwe due to fears that its government is using diamond trading to fund "human rights violations" ("Blood diamonds?"). Furthermore the European Union (EU) shares these concerns and
has called upon the Kimberley Process to investigate ("Blood diamonds?"). Why should we care? The public should care about conflict diamonds because as long as this not controlled, "from
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