They re not interested in identifying where gems come from. They re interested in getting gems and polishing them and then reselling them so they can make money on the markup. And the ultimate beneficiaries of all this are not the African leaders who are making money off of this but the military manufacturers and the military salesmen and merchants who are selling arms and fuelling these conflicts. So they have a stake in keeping these conflicts going. They don t want peace.
Peace means the end of business.
So conflict, war, sells war makes money. So that s what this is all about. Explain how the diamond market is run. The diamond monopoly the DeBeers monopoly, the cartel out of South Africa, produced a lot diamonds but most of them were kept off the market. When there are fewer diamonds to sell, their value goes up.