This paper examines the ways in which 'blood diamonds' became an integral part of the competition for power that underlies the Sierra Leone conflict. It argues that today's conflict was fuelled by the illicit diamond trade which began before independence and which, by the 1990s, had reduced ...
Passage 3The Sierra Leone(塞拉利昂) civil war in 1990 was financed(资助) by the trade in illegal (非法的) stones. The beautiful but bloody stones are also known as “blood diamonds”.Although the diamonds come from Sierra Leone and Liberia(利比亚), people in the twocountries never get rich...
The Sierra Leone Civil War death toll was over fifty thousand people and half a million people were displaced. It is known as one of the bloodiest wars in Africa. The civil war was extensive and brutal because both the RUF and the Sierra Leone government were continually backed by blood, ...
Sierra Leone charges from the back to win the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland April 7, 2024 Russia and West join forces to tackle trade in ‘blood diamonds’ despite feud over Moscow’s diamonds April 4, 2024 Sierra Leone’s former president charged with treason for alleged involvement ...
Child Soldiers In Sierra Leone Children of War; Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone “I still dream about the boy from my village who I killed. I see him in my dreams‚ and he is talking to me‚ saying I killed him for nothing‚ and I am crying” (Sierra Leone Rebels Forcefully Rec...
Sierra Leone: World's poorest country 01:53 Sierra Leone Civil War 03:03 CLEAN : Sierra Leone's peace diamond dividend slow in coming 01:00 VOICED : Diamante de la paz de Sierra Leona vendido en USD 6,5 millones 00:15 Sequence showing women carrying objects on their heads at a market...
6. Sierra Leone is famous for “blood diamonds” that were mined and sold during the civil war to raise money for weapons. Unfortunately, Sierra Leone is not an exception to most of Sub-Saharan Africa where mineral wealth is used to finance wars.South Africa,Angola,South Sudan,DRC, are ...
Sierra Leone is better known for blood diamonds than beach resorts, but this is changing. Ten years on from its brutal civil war, the small West African country has started rebuilding its tourism industry. In the 1970s and '80s tourists flocked to high-class beach resorts along Sierra Leone...
16 EXPLORING SIERRA LEONE Map of Sierra Leone . 18 Sierra Leonean Demographics and Culture . 19 Sierra Leonean Proverbs . 21 Chronology: Origins, History and Early Aftermath of the War in Sierra Leone . 22 Post-War Context . 29 Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone: Truth and ...
Sierra Leone has had a turbulent past, from the Atlantic slave trade and colonization to independence in 1961, a brutal civil war that lasted over a decade from 1991-2002, the blood diamonds that sponsored it, and Ebola in 2013. The after-effects remain, of course, but the country is now...