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Zusatztext This is a revised edition of the definitive portrait of the global network of blood diamonds. First discovered in 1930! the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London! Antwerp! and New York! often with the complicity of the international diamond industry. Eventually! these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces and brides and spouses the world over. "Blood Diamonds" is the gripping tale of how diamond smuggling works! how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people! and how the policies of the diamonds industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happe Informationen zum Autor Greg Campbell is a freelance journalist and former editor of the Boulder Weekly. He reported a series of articles from Sarajevo just after the Dayton Accord. He lives in Longmont, CO. Klappentext Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the international diamond trail of brutality, horror, and profit - providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of global consequence Zusammenfassung First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These blood diamonds are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York. This title presents a portrait of the global network of blood diamonds.
