Blood diamonds
Subtitle: tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones
By: Greg Campbell.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Diamond industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Sierra Leone; Diamond miners -- Crimes against -- Sierra Leone; Diamond industry and trade -- Corrupt practices; Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-
Description: An expose of international diamond smuggling operations considers the rebel campaigns linked to the Sierra Leone diamond mines and how the area and its people have been destroyed by the industry's policies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: From pits of despair to altars of love : Kenema, Sierra Leone -- -- 2.; title: Diamond junction : a smuggler's paradise : Freetown, Sierra Leone -- -- 3. The; title: gun runners : from Tongo to Tiffany's : Monrovia, Liberia -- -- 4.; title: Death by diamonds : Operation no living thing : Freetown, Sierra Leone -- -- 5. The; title: syndicate : a diamond is forever : London -- -- 6.; title: Waging peace : taking the conflict out of "conflict diamonds" : Makeni, Sierra Leone -- -- 7. The; title: way station : next stop, Liberia : Kailahun, Sierra Leone -- -- 8. "The; title: base" : Osama's war chest : West Africa, Afghanistan, New York -- -- 9. The; title: rough road ahead : mining for peace : Freetown, Sierra Leone.