Report on "Blood Diamonds"

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Firstly, the main subject of this report will be based in the conflicting diamonds from the African countries. Indeed, this conflict had resulted in Civil Wars in many African countries like the Civil War in Sierra Leone or Angola. This problem has increased since the ninety's and still continues to take importance to such an extent that the movie "Blood Diamonds", with Leonardo DiCaprio, highlighted the situation in 2006. In the CNN reportage we have seen, Leonardo is furthermore interviewed by the journalist who has lead the report, about his thought on the conflict diamonds situation. So, after watching the CNN report about the conflict diamonds in Africa, we are going to detail this dramatic phenomenon and discuss about the Blood Diamonds. We will also touch upon the human, economic and politic consequences and question why such kind of business exists in our "ethical societies".

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[...] Some of other people succeed to go away from those common practices. Consequently, this led to a lot of refugees, who were also afraid of civil war between official authorities and rebels. When we observe this tragic situation, we can wonder how this murderous business could still run. IV- How the society could let this business running? The problem what we should speak about, is that the situation has improved but this is not completely eradicated and people continues to die in this business and some rebel manager continue to hurt entire family. [...]

[...] Since 2003, some non-governmental organisations pointed out that Al-Qaeda could be implicated in the blood diamond trade. So, it means that this conflict has totally changed of form compared to the beginning. Actually, at the beginning, some rebel and violent groups have funded independent and non-organized groups to protest against the governmental authority and to try building a better life for his country. Whereas, now the conflict has begun to change into an international and terrorist conflict instead of local and non-organized. [...]

[...] Civil war is so on the basis of the conflict diamonds. All of those diamonds are smuggling to European countries and also United States of America. For example, each year, a billion dollar of blood diamonds is imported in USA while millions of African people are dying for business of diamonds. In countries where diamonds are selling, we use to say that we can resume blood diamonds in 4 C's: cut, carat, colour, clarity. Therefore, they absolutely do not take into consideration that those diamonds are supporting rebel forces in certain areas of west and central Africa. [...]

[...] The Kimberley process was made to limit smuggling diamonds from Africa but also to make people aware of this dangerous business. Apparently, some people are still unreasoning and some diamonds sold on our markets are still marked by atrocities. Conclusion To conclude this report, we can say that blood diamonds are a way to rebel forces to resist against official authorities and now terrorist may be implicated in this conflict. An awareness of certain people led to the Kimberley process but so many efforts should be made to eradicate completely this dangerous issue. References http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/08/ew.mov.diamond/index.html http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/01/12/africa.diamonds/index. [...]

[...] So, after watching the CNN report about the conflict diamonds in Africa, we are going to detail this dramatic phenomenon and explain what the reasons of Blood Diamonds are. We will also speak about the human, economic and politic consequences and why this kind of business is still running in our “ethical societies”. What exactly are blood diamonds? Conflict diamonds captured the world's attention during the extremely brutal conflict in Sierra Leone in the late 1990's. During this time, it is estimated that conflict diamonds represented approximately of the world's diamond production. [...]