Blood Diamond

WHAT IS A BLOOD DIAMOND?

• Diamonds that fueled the war are called "blood" or "conflict" diamonds
• Many diamond fouled wars have ended.
• But it's still a serious problem

WHERE IS THIS PROBLEM TAKING PLACE?

• Countries:
• Sierra Leone
• Liberia
• Angola
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo

WHO IS THE PROBLEM?

• Blood diamonds are being sold to illegal operations
• The groups they are being sold to:
• Rebel groups
• Military groups
• Terrorist groups.

WHY IS THE PROBLEM HAPPENING?

• The National Union for Total Independence of Angola took over 2/3's of Angola
• It means that they took over most of Angola's diamond mines
• A rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, funded the guerrilla warfare with diamonds
• UNITA employes thousands of illegal diamond miners
• The employees were usually young and unpaid immigrants

WHAT IS THIS PROBLEM HAPPENING?

• They made them dig diamonds from river beds with their hands
• The diamonds were snuck out through the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Africans are being abused to work in the river beds to find diamonds
• Africans are being killed

WHAT ARE WAYS YOU COULD END THE BLOOD DIAMOND ISSUE IN AFRICA?

• Ask your retailer for their policies or rules on selling diamonds illegally
• Make sure word is spread about what is going on and contact your US senate with evidence
• persuade them to have better rules so things like "Conflict Diamonds" won't happen anymore

When did this problem start or occur?

• It started to occur In between December 1866 and February 1867
• a young boy 15 years old was working on his fathers farm found a transparent stone
• people were sent to mine throughout Africa in order to find these not stones but Diamonds
• They would risk their lives to find the diamonds
• This was the big conflict that began in the December 1867 to February 1867.

WORKS CITED

• Desanker, Paul V., Peri M. Klemm, Kenneth J. Perkins, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. "Africa." World Book Student. World Book, 2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar006740&st=blood+diamond....
• Annotation: This website helped me because it showed me how blood diamonds are a problem, why they are a problem, and where they are a problem. It showed me information from diffrent view points.
• "Blood Diamonds." Global Issues in Context Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Global Issues In Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=05bd99e8c42a....
• Annotation: This website helped me because it showed me how blood diamonds became a problem and why they are a problem. It also helped me know what a blood diamond is.

WORKS CITED

• Johnson, Eric. “Blood Diamonds: The Conflict in Sierra Leone.” Edgewood Collage. Madison Wisconsin. 6 Dec. 2002. Speech.
• Annotation: This speech/ Lecture that Eric Johnson gave helped me learn new information on the situation from several View points which gave me a better I site on what was going on. His paper was a big help on what and how it all happend what is my project about to.
• Williams, Yvonne, and Marion Williams. “Stopping Blood Diamonds.” A Dance for Bethany. Yvonne Williams, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. .
• Annotation: The authors writing is relatable to my project stating the fact Blood Diamonds are an issue in Africa and they want to make it stop as much as we do. The goal of this is to make the world aware of Blood Diamonds and what the problem of it is and to make people wanna end the horrific problems it’s causing the Africans. Dance for Bethany is a movie on the race, slavery and blood Diamonds but there is a human trafficking web site all about it as we’ll. Thus cite helped me because it gives me all the info on what the Blood Diamonds are and how harmful they are. It also helped me learn more about what the issue was all about and how we could end it and it also wants people to know how bad this is and we should help try and stop it.

REFLECTION

• 1) I think that our sources gave quality information because in about every site I looked through had the same info. and it is full of highly intensified research making it believable that this research is useful or quality wise information.
• 2) I think our presentation relates well to our project because the backgrounds all relate to things that happened or went well with the "Blood Diamonds" the format in my opinion has no value to the project I feel it just needs to connect to the project on a highly scaled level.
• 3) I think that our project has an effective end project because we payed close attention and got the best of best information on our project topic as we could. We also made the visuals important to the project itself so you can have a better understanding on the project and we also made it so it was easy to want to learn what the real problem is.