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• Book Title: Blood Diamonds: tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones



• Author: Greg Campbell



• Publication Date: February 5, 2004
• Description:

  First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the mainly savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to lawful diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry.Campbell neatly ties in the tale of how conflict diamonds end up on the ring fingers of Western brides while their use has fund a war which has ripped Sierra Leone separately for decades. He follows the trail as they are smuggled from West Africa to New York, London and Antwerp regularly with the cooperation of the legitimate diamond industry and into mainstream use.