Blood Diamonds News
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A boomtown is rising in the jungle- covered mountains of Sierra Leone. Bumbuna, estimated population 12,000, just got a new bank. A growing Sunday congregation spills out from underneath blue tarps that serve as a makeshift church. In hills where armed men once abducted children, school kids now get coloring books featuring a smiling bulldozer ridden by the cartoon character Bob the Builder. Outside of town, the mining company handing them out is loading bright yellow Caterpillar trucks as it unearths iron ore, giving Sierra Leone the fastest-growing economy in the world.
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A $22 billion disease-fighting fund backed by Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates found that money intended for people with life-threatening illnesses was used for home renovations in India and diverted to a person linked with money laundering and so-called blood diamonds in Nigeria.
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Zimbabwe should be banned from selling diamonds to members of the Kimberley Process , created to end trade in stones mined to fund conflict and war, after claims of smuggling, rape and assault by the country’s army and police at its Marange gem fields, Global Witness said.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for supporting rebels who committed atrocities in neighboring Sierra Leone during an 11-year civil war.
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Zimbabwe held an auction of 300,000 carats of gems from its Marange diamond fields last week, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said.
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Human Rights Watch called on governments, companies and consumers to refuse to buy Zimbabwe diamonds until all members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme agree the country is protecting people’s rights.
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Production from Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields is about one million carats a month, said Chaim Evan-Zohar , president of Tacy Ltd., citing information he got from a government official.
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Zimbabwe can export diamonds from its Marange fields under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme even after some member countries protested the resumption of shipments, the head of the organization said.
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Zimbabwe will resist any “special monitoring” of exports of gems from the Marange diamond fields beyond the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, said Mines Minister Obert Mpofu.
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