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Blood Diamonds is a television documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola .
Diamond mining in Sierra Leone. Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in ...
A man and two children sifting for diamonds in Sierra Leone in 2004.. The United Nations imposed sanctions against UNITA in 1998 through United Nations Security Council Resolution 1173, however investigators led by Robert Fowler presented the Fowler Report to the UN in March 2000, which detailed how the movement was able to continue financing its war efforts through the sale of diamonds on the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. 1991–2002 war in West Africa Sierra Leone Civil War Part of spillover of the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars Date 23 March 1991 – 18 January 2002 (10 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Sierra Leone Result Commonwealth victory Belligerents Sierra Leone SLA (before and ...
A blood diamond is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance military operations. Blood diamond may also refer to: Blood Diamond, 2006 film about the blood diamond trade; Blood Diamond, a 2024 album by Unknown T; Blood Diamonds (documentary), 2006 TV documentary about the blood diamond trade
In the 2005 movie Lord of War, the protagonist played by Nicolas Cage sells weapons to the RUF. RUF was featured significantly in the 2006 movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio . In this film, RUF is used largely to create the social climate in which the film is set, and the (fictional) depicted commanders of the group are the main ...
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The original title for the film was Roma calibro 9 (lit. ' Rome caliber 9 '). [1] The film is very similar to Di Leo's earlier film Caliber 9, with Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti describing it as "a reversal of Caliber 9" with the relationships in the film being contrary to each other.