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"Blood" Diamonds.
In: Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3
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Throughout the 1990’s, western Africa was torn by a series of bloody conflicts between national governments and various rebel factions, all sharing a crucial nexus regarding the control of natural resources. Diamonds were the motivation for rebellion as well as being the most important source of financing for rebel forces. Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Ivory Coast have all been plagued by civil conflicts that centered on control of the diamond trade as the means to finance the activities of insurgent groups. The commerce in these “blood diamonds” (or “conflict diamonds”) was at one time thought to make up as much as 15 percent of the world diamond trade, generating hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit revenues used by rebel groups to purchase war matériel. The cost in human terms has been incalculable, with literally millions killed or maimed and tens of millions of refugees.
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"Blood" Diamonds.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Weinel, Ivan |
Zeitschrift: | Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023, S. 3 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2023 |
Medientyp: | Nachschlagewerk |
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