Botswana: Conflict Diamonds
13 minutes, 2003
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We reveal the dirty secret behind the glitter of Europe's diamond trade - and the reluctant campaign to clean it up. Raw diamonds have been purchased from war zones in Africa and the money used by the warring factions to buy arms - fuelling bloody conflicts in Sierra Leone and Angola. A U.N. investigation pointed the finger of blame at dealers in one European city in particular - Antwerp, Belgium. But what has been done since to stop the flow of so-called "Blood Diamonds"?