A diamond may last you forever; unfortunately, lives cannot and are often cut short by the sale of diamonds. Blood diamonds are the cause of thousands of deaths all across Africa. Blood diamonds are diamonds that are mined and sold in order to help fund civil wars, or terrorist groups. The Sierra Leone has a major problem with Blood Diamonds. Blood diamonds are mined out of the Sierra Leone and then sold to help purchase weapons used in fighting a civil war. Now these weapons are not just simple handguns, but the weapons purchased are radical arms used in serious warfare. The National Security Council has been doing everything in its power to strengthen and lengthen arms and diamond embargoes
to help fight the civil war and yet it continues. Angola has had many of the same problems as the Sierra Leone. Angola has been at war with it's self since 1975. The UN has tried to intervene in Angola's affairs by having an election in 1992, which caused even more problems. Much......

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Title: Diamonds Are Forever (Funding Civil War)
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