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	Blood Diamonds: Diamond Source of Virginia Loose Diamonds Education
		Blood diamonds got their start in 1992 in the bush war of Angola, where UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, seeking new ways to finance his army, looked to the country's vast diamond fields to extend the smuggling business that his rebel movement had pioneered in the 1970s and 1980s.
		The blood diamond issue took on greater significance, however, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, when media reports cited evidence that diamonds were used by terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, as a means of transferring their wealth globally.
		Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to happen.
	www.diamondsourceva.com /Education/DiamondIndustry/blood-diamonds.asp (1865 words)

	Blood diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A blood diamond (also called a conflict diamond or a war diamond) is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgent or invading army's war efforts.
		Blood Diamonds first came to the world's attention in the late 1990's, during the violent civil war in Sierra Leone.
		Blood diamonds were the main theme of the 2004 Australian/Nigerian film Death is a Diamond.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conflict_diamond (1679 words)

	Conflict diamonds
		In Angola and Sierra Leone, conflict diamonds continue to fund the rebel groups, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), both of which are acting in contravention of the international community's objectives of restoring peace in the two countries.
		Conflict diamonds are diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the Security Council.
		The international diamond industry is already taking steps to respond, such as the adoption by the World Diamond Congress, Antwerp, 19 July 2000, of a resolution which, if fully implemented, stands to increase the diamond industry's ability to block conflict diamonds from reaching market.
	www.un.org /peace/africa/Diamond.html (1271 words)

	'Blood Diamonds' stokes fears of gem backlash - The Boston Globe
		To prevent backlash from "Blood Diamond," the diamond industry turned to the World Diamond Council, an organization created in 2000 to represent the diamond industry and governments with diamond interests at the Kimberly Process meetings, and to address the conflict diamond issue.
		Ghana was given three months to stop trafficking blood diamonds from the Ivory Coast; if conflict diamonds continue to enter the country, Ghana's membership in the Kimberley Process will be revoked and the country will be unable to sell its diamond supply.
		The local diamond industry is a small community, so Minassian often hears about people who may harbor fake certificates for their diamonds.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/12/04/blood_diamonds_stokes_fears_of_gem_backlash (1187 words)

	Conflict Diamonds: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
		Diamonds mined in rebel-held areas in Côte d'Ivoire, a West African country in the midst of a volatile conflict, are reaching the international diamond market.
		Blood diamonds are not just a problem of the past.
		Blood diamonds have fueled wars across Africa, leading to the deaths of more than 4 million people and displacing many millions more.
	www.amnestyusa.org /diamonds/index.do (558 words)

	Theatrical Review of Blood Diamond - DVDTOWN.com
		A blood diamond, also known as a conflict or war diamond) is a jewel that is sold out of a war zone in order to finance insurgents.
		Diamond companies caused an uproar not too long ago, claiming that director Edward Zwick should include a tag to the film which indicated these events are fictional and take place in the past.
		The point here is as crystal clear as the diamonds themselves: the American public is content with soundbites and pleas for help on infomercials, yet they continue to do nothing of any relevance to stop this warfare throughout the world.
	www.dvdtown.com /news/theatricalreviewofblooddiamond/4204 (1291 words)

	Blood Diamond (2006): Reviews
		Blood Diamond is a gem in a season with lots of worthy movies.
		Blood Diamond is, in the vernacular of Old Hollywood, a rip-roaring adventure, the kind made in the '30s with Clark Gable and the handiest leading lady on contract at MGM.
		Blood Diamond is a by-the-numbers message picture, to be sure...But the director, Edward Zwick, is craftsman enough that the pace never slackens, the chase scenes thrill, and the battle scenes sicken.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/blooddiamond (1746 words)

	Blood Diamond (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blood Diamond is a 2006 film by Edward Zwick, the Academy Award-winning director of Glory and The Last Samurai.
		The title refers to "blood diamonds", which are usually mined in war zones and are sold to finance the conflicts.
		De Beers maintains the trade in conflict diamonds has been reduced from 4% to 1% by the Kimberley Process and it has been suggested the company pushed for the film to contain a disclaimer saying the events are fictional and in the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blood_Diamond_(film) (527 words)

	Blood Diamond - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		"Blood Diamond" plays like a chaser to "Apocalypto": A good man spends about two hours of screen time on the lam trying to stay alive and eventually reunite with his family.
		In the South Africa-based "Blood Diamond," written by Charles Leavitt and directed by Edward Zwick, Sierra Leone's civil war is in progress in 1999 when humble fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) gets separated from his family including son Dia (Kagiso Kuypers), who is about 10.
		"Blood Diamond's" thematic underbelly is high-minded -- toss your diamonds wherever you dumped your furs a few years ago -- but it's conventional to the core and doesn't earn the tears it coaxes toward the end.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_483189.html (235 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| 'Blood diamond' scheme begins
		But the lure of diamonds, for the unscrupulous, as an ideal repository of illicit wealth means the plan will undoubtedly encounter resistance.
		Although conflict gems represent only a small proportion - less than 5% - of all diamonds, it is no coincidence that wars have raged in diamond producing areas of Sierra Leone, Angola and Congo.
		Diamond mines themselves are fought over, but the gems also fuel conflict because they are a high-value, easily hidden commodity favoured by arms dealers, smugglers and criminals of all types.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2619663.stm (370 words)

	Blood Diamond
		Blood Diamond presents itself as an action thriller but the genre trappings can't hide the fact that Zwick wants to teach audiences another history lesson and lecture them on political correctness.
		Blood Diamond covers old ground but with a current twist as it deals with modern issues of terrorism, political upheaval and armed conflict.
		Blood Diamond was directed by Edward Zwick, a staunchly mainstream filmmaker who seems most at ease with the language of epic storytelling.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/blood_diamond (1165 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Blood Diamond Review - 'Blood Diamond' outshines its flaws
		Blood Diamond is a schizophrenic mix of adventure and social hectoring.
		Diamonds have been used to finance civil wars, for example, and on a smaller scale there's plenty of ordinary, every-day horror involved in the treatment of the miners.
		Blood Diamond conveys all that sort of information but often in a smug and preachy fashion and, worse yet, almost seems to suggest such issues are mostly in the past.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/B/Blood_Diamond/2006/12/08/2686698.html (558 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Movies: "Blood Diamond" turns out to be a movie gem
		Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) found himself foraging for diamonds in the rivers in the middle of the Sierra Leone wilderness while his family tries to survive along with the rest of the refugees.
		"Blood Diamond" takes the one thing that is said to be a "girl's best friend" and "last forever" and addresses a conflict that people rarely think about when heading into a jewelry store.
		The effects of a single diamond are place on the movie screen with the need to convey how dangerous and how violent the situation was only a few years ago.
	onmilwaukee.com /movies/articles/blooddiamond.html (789 words)

	Truthdig - Reports - Blood Diamonds Are Forever
		“Blood Diamond” follows a plotline that echoes at least a dozen films, including “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” “Casablanca” and the Indiana Jones trilogy.
		It is his performance as a man in search of his son, all the while resisting the smuggler’s attempts to manipulate and control him, that almost single-handedly keep “Blood Diamond” from sailing off into pure cliche.
		The producers of “Blood Diamond” have taken care to assure us that they are not damning the industry itself, rather raising awareness of the need to make sure one does not buy conflict diamonds.
	www.truthdig.com /report/item/20061207_blood_diamonds_are_forever (976 words)

	Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes \| 'Blood Diamond'
		Overlaid with a rich chalky layer of white guilt as it is, Blood Diamond still can't help turning Hounsou into yet another symbol of exuberant emotions, immense, unchanneled strength and good-natured honesty—an image of Africa: simple, unrefined and ultimately childish.
		Blood Diamond's views of Africa are everything we've seen and heard before: the same sun simmering on the same veldt, seething in a tepid bath of James Newton Howard's music and, ultimately, as in The Last King of Scotland, the same small plane flying away from the homicidal natives.
		Blood Diamond (R), directed by Edward Zwick, written by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell, photographed by Eduardo Serra and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly, opens Dec. 8.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/12.06.06/blood-diamond-0649.html (947 words)

	LA Daily News - Implausibility takes the glint off 'Blood Diamond'
		"Blood Diamond" is set in Sierra Leone in 1999 as guerrilla rebels wage a civil war against the government and any innocent bystander who happens to be in the way.
		Sierra Leone is rich in diamonds, but the wealth never makes it to the people in need, going instead to the arms dealers who perpetuate the country's (and the continent's) history of violence.
		Penalizing "Blood Diamond," which fancies itself a serious-minded film, for implausible action-movie stunts seems cheap until you realize that you don't really buy into anything that happens in the film.
	www.dailynews.com /filmreviews/ci_4797708 (495 words)

	Diamonds in Conflict - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
		The connection between diamonds and conflicts goes far beyond rebel groups seizing control of diamond-rich areas and selling the precious gems for arms and war supplies.
		During the 1990s, diamonds fueled the civil war in Angola with terrible consequences.
		The Sierra Leone government’s proposal for a diamond certification regime, the appointment of an expert panel, and the diamond industry’s nine-point proposals are some of the hallmarks of the public hearings on “conflict diamonds,” says the Bangladesh Ambassador to the UN.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/diamond (1142 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| World unites to fight 'blood diamonds'
		Representatives from diamond producing and trading countries, as well as the diamond industry, are meeting in the Swiss town of Interlaken in an attempt to stop "blood diamonds" reaching world markets.
		The two-day gathering is part of the "Kimberley Process", aimed at blocking the trade in diamonds produced in areas of conflict that has helped finance civil wars in countries such as Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.
		The real question now is whether the diamond industry can adopt a system that really regulates itself, ending its tarnished image in which up to 20% of its trade is in illicit stones.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2403707.stm (357 words)

	'Blood Diamond' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Blood Diamond" is set largely in Sierra Leone in 1999, a time of civil war when "conflict" diamonds, or "blood" diamonds, are being smuggled out and used to buy weapons.
		Solomon, however, finds a pink diamond the size of a bird's egg and manages to bury it before being hauled away by soldiers to the same jail where Danny Archer (DiCaprio), an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, is being held for smuggling.
		Trying to get the goods on conflict diamonds is an American journalist named Maddy Bowen (Connelly), who's smart, gutsy and addicted to a life that takes her from one global hot spot to another.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06342/744471-120.stm (707 words)

	Jewelers nervous about Blood Diamond film - Boston.com
		The chairman of the Kimberley Process, Kago Mashashane of Botswana, wrote earlier this year to the producers of "The Blood Diamond" asking that it include an epilogue explaining the measures taken to stem the illicit trade.
		He said Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds, was worried that a consumer boycott could damage its efforts to boost education and healthcare since the diamond sector accounted for around half of government revenue.
		Currently the Kimberley Process regulates the trade in rough diamonds, but a new group is seeking to extend scrutiny all the way to the retail level, she said.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/05/25/jewelers_nervous_about_blood_diamond_film (579 words)

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		So-called conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, refer to stones mined in war zones and sold illicitly to fund war, insurgencies and human rights abuses.
		To help prepare for a possible public backlash, the World Diamond Council, a trade group, earlier this year hired a crisis public relations firm to design a campaign stressing the industry's efforts at reducing the number of blood diamonds.
		In 2002 diamond production companies and most countries involved in the mining and trade of diamonds agreed on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which is a process designed to prevent blood diamonds from entering the mainstream diamond market.
	www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/N04490652.htm (698 words)

	Blood Diamonds Kept War Flowing - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Despite the UN embargo on Unita diamonds in 1993 - and other measures including an arms embargo, a travel ban on the group's leaders, the closure of its overseas offices and financial sanctions - the rebels have continued selling the precious stones.
		Experts in Luanda estimate that Unita earns some $500 million every year from the illegal diamond trade, a war treasury that allows the rebels to mount deadly guerrilla operations across the country.
		Angola's government has tried to stem the diamond trafficking by creating a "certificate of origin", which guarantees that a diamond was mined in government-held territory.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/diamond/2002/0402unita.htm (470 words)

	'Blood Diamond' in the rough - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Blood Diamond, the Leonardo DiCaprio thriller that opens Friday, takes a brutal look at the African diamond trade and the civil wars spawned by it.
		The World Diamond Council, which represents diamond firms from more than 70 countries, is touting the industry's progress in eliminating "conflict diamonds," stones that come from war-torn regions or that are used to finance insurgencies.
		The World Diamond Council is countering with its own campaign, including full-page newspaper ads and a website, diamondfacts.org, to assure consumers that the industry adheres to the Kimberley Process, an international diamond policing mechanism created in 2002 to winnow out conflict stones.
	usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-12-03-blood-diamond-main_x.htm?... (1488 words)

	kdka.com - 'Blood Diamond' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He happens to have found an exceptional gem -- a pink diamond the size of a large ice cube -- and buried it in the ground.
		And Connelly, as American journalist Maddy Bowen, is investigating the widespread violence and corruption that pervade the diamond industry.
		Whether or not these characters become better people because of their sacrifices is irrelevant -- the ultimate point of "Blood Diamond" is to make you think twice about where you buy that engagement ring or anniversary present.
	kdka.com /moviereviews/movies_story_340014532.html (664 words)

	Premiere Magazine - Blood Diamond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but they can be a country's worst enemy.
		That Blood Diamond penetratingly, and sometimes punishingly, shows precisely how this is the case without ever turning into some kind of lecture is its triumph.
		Diamond's noble protagonist is Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, in a performance that goes way beyond the plastic sainthood lesser actors would settle for), a humble Sierra Leone fisherman whose biggest priority in life is getting his preteen son properly schooled so he can have a better life.
	www.premiere.com /moviereviews/3291/blood-diamond.html (448 words)

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