Blood diamonds / Greg Campbell

Public ISBD Titre : Blood diamonds Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Greg Campbell, Auteur Editeur : Westview Press Année de publication : 2002 Importance : 251 p Note générale : 03.03 CAM Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Conflits armés Ressources naturelles Tags : Ressources naturelles  Droits de l'Homme  Conflits  Diamants Index. décimale : 03.03 Ressources naturelles Résumé : First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry.Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. 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. Blood diamonds [texte imprimé] / Greg Campbell, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Westview Press, 2002 . - 251 p. 03.03 CAM Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Conflits armés Ressources naturelles Tags : Ressources naturelles  Droits de l'Homme  Conflits  Diamants Index. décimale : 03.03 Ressources naturelles Résumé : First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the complicity of the international diamond industry.Eventually, these very diamonds find their way into the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. 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.

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