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The selling and obtaining of Blood diamonds is occurring in African nations, such as: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coastand, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The problem with blood diamonds is they are obtained by violent conflict, human rights abuse, and war. Blood diamonds have cause wars in Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia. Diamonds have also been used by terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda to finance their activities. Blood diamonds get their name not because of a red tint but because they were obtained in an illegal way. Citizens would be taken as slaves and put to work into mines for the mining of diamonds.
Sierra Leone a group called the Revolutionary United Front killed and chopped off the arms of people living around and of people working in diamond villages. Then the Revolutionary United Front moved on to the next village to do the same kind of terror, people had to desert their homes out of fear. Around 20,000 had, had their limbs cut off , and 75,000 were murdered. Another similar case happened in Cote D'ivoire. The Zimbabwe kills, tortures, and violates human rights in the diamond mining operations. Zimbabwe produced around 2 million dollars in blood diamonds. In the takeover of a village in Cote D’ivoire the Zimbabwe killed more than 200 local diamond miners. The outcome of this mass murder caused the Zimbabwe to force the adults and children to mine for diamonds. The Zimbabwe punished diamond miners who disobey their orders. The punishments would be beatings, torture, rape, and murder.
Groups like the Rebels from Sudan, the Revolutionary United Front from Sierra Leone and the Zimbabwe from Cote D’ivoire are killing innocent citizens from the villages. They for...

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...a Leone we can help the people that are forced to mine diamonds and capture the rebels that are keeping them there. One by one if we go to the villages that need help because of the rebels then we can reduce the blood dimond issue slowly but surely. We could also lower the value of diamonds and that would cause the rebels to reconsider the whole process because there isn't that much money involved. All in all I think a higher security would be the more efficient choice because you are not only stopping the exporting of Blood Diamonds but you are protecting the citizen of that village that the rebels happen to be in. Its not the peoples fault that the diamonds are where they live and people that are in a higher position are making them work for the rest of their lives just isn't right. Their human rights are being stored away and higher security could benefit them.

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