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Journalist Greg Campbell leads the reader down the international diamonds trail of brutality, horror, and profit - providing an on-the-ground and in-the-mines story of global consequenceFirst uncovered 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 diamonds merchants in London, Antwerp, and NY, often with the complicity of the international diamonds industry. Eventually, these very diamonds find their way in to the rings and necklaces of brides and spouses the world over. Blood Diamonds is the gripping tale of the way the diamonds smuggling works, the way the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and the way the policies of the diamonds industry - institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel - have allowed it to occur. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of the diamonds, a lot of which are taken to the entire world market by fanatical enemies, like the Al Qaeda network. These repercussions of diamonds smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the indegent and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone, and the results of overlooking this African tragedy, as the entire world has seen, are both shockingly deadly and unquestionably global.