Blood Diamonds in Blood Diamonds in LiberiaLiberia
By: Olena Yousif and Peter Kim
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Creating a Conflict Free Diamond World
Directly: · Revolutionary United Front rebels took control over diamond rich areas.· They exploited civilians and made them work in the mines as slaves and prisoners.· Had a civil war that went on for 8 years and killed over 200,000 people and displaced many more.· Diamond used for money, fueling the rebel groups’ to perpetrate more violence and continues on.· Al Quada having links with Liberia.
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Turn the diamonds into cash and using that to purchase guns, ammunitions, and other weapons.
Civil Wars are occurring and are being funded by other countries near them.
Indirectly
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Indirect (Cont.)
Liberia gave support in the form of weapons, training, logistical support, as well as a safe place where the rebels could retreat to.
Neighboring countries supporting Liberia’s rebel groups.
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Conflict Diamonds: Liberia
Directly: Artisanal diamond mines
were easy targets for rebel groups to take control over and they were the prey for rebel groups who could seize the mines, trading their diamonds for cash.
Mano River being Liberia’s main source of diamonds .
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Rebels groups killing Liberian civilians 2002-2006
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IndirectCivil War erupted in
1989. Al Quada purchasing
millions of dollars worth of diamonds.
Even had the UN dispatch militia to ease down the violence.
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Liberia enters the diamond trade
Directly: Kimberley Process in 2007, the
European Community today confess Liberia as a member in following an assessment made by an expert mission sent to the country
Liberia has been subject to UN diamond approval for six years, as a result of its civil war, it got promoted in large part by the smuggling of conflict diamonds from Liberia and Sierra Leone
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Indirectly Liberia will now be able to export its rough diamonds legally to other Kimberley Process Members.
As a result of civil war Liberia has been subjected to UN diamond approval for 6 years.
Kimberley Process experts visited Liberia in 2005, 2006 and 2007 to advise Liberia on
diamond production and trade to prevent conflict diamonds.
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UN lifts Liberia diamond sale ban
DirectlyThe ban was meant to
stop income from the sale of “blood diamonds” fueling wars in West Africa.
Nearly half of the world's diamonds come from west, central and southern Africa.
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Indirect:Workers pressed for the ban to be lifted, arguing that funs were desperately needed to improve living standards in Liberia.
Unemployment is at 85% in the West African nation, and this is a chance to create much needed jobs
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Liberia Bans Import of ‘Blood Diamonds’
Direct: Liberia has banned imports of uncertified
rough diamonds from Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo to conform with UN approval on stones used to support rebels.
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Indirect:
Diamonds fueled the civil war with terrible consequences.
Liberia banned diamond exports just ahead of a UN Security Council to support for Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KeWBqs
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Work Cited
"Creating a Conflict Free Diamond World." Stop Blood Diamonds. Web. 02 Nov. 2009. http://www.stopblooddiamonds.org/conflict-diamonds-liberia.asp.
"Conflict Diamonds: Liberia." All About Gemstones. Web. 02 Nov. 2009. http://www.allaboutgemstones.com/conflict-diamonds_liberia.html.
European Commission. GALE, 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. http://www.europa-eu-un.org/articles/en/article_7000_en.htm.
BBC news. ProQuest, 2007. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6602173.stm.
GNU licences. Global Policy Forum., 2005. Web. 29 Oct. 2009. http://www.ask.com/bar?q=blood+diamond+in+liberia&page=1&qsrc=0&dm=all&ab=7&title=Liberia+Bans+Import+of+%27Blood+Diamonds%27&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalpolicy.org%2Fsecurity%2Fissues%2Fliberia%2F2001%2F0319ban.htm&sg=%2BOW40zCnObJ6QDCNy%2BP8eWz%2BIcMUQivaI3SiXG4QlT4%3D&tsp=1256844043762.
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