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So-called blood diamonds are mined by forced labor and the proceeds are used to finance guerrilla armies, coups, and civil wars.

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Where do hot diamonds come from?

A hot diamond is also known more commonly as a blood diamond. It's diamonds which are mined in war zones. This is most common in regions of Africa, where civil war and genocide create turmoil in areas that diamond mining is possible.


What is the term use of a blood diamond?

'Use of a blood diamond' implies that a diamond has been traded for money or for other valuables in support of terrorism or other civil mayhem.


What is a clean diamond?

A clean diamond is a diamond that has not come from countries that fund violent civil conflicts in many African countries. You may have heard of a "blood diamond"


In blood diamond what role do diamonds play?

In the movie Blood Diamond, the whole world where the story takes place is the world of diamond mining in African countries, and the processes in which people engage to pick up diamonds from the earth and turn them into money that funds terrorism, civil war, mayhem and other travesties against humans.


Where to get blood diamonds?

As an average consumer, you may not be able to purchase a blood diamond on the open market, because blood diamonds -- by their definition -- are sold to finance civil war, terrorism, and deadly mayhem. However, you could purchase a diamond and not know that it was a blood diamond, because of the stone's change-of-hands process required of all diamonds as they travel from being mined to being sold.


Is diamond called blood diamond mined to support a war?

Yes, or terrorism or other mayhem.


What is different between diamond and blood diamond?

Every diamond is a diamond: not every diamond is a blood diamond. Blood diamonds earn their name based on how they are extracted from the earth, by whom and for what purpose. Blood diamonds are mined by humans at gun or knife point, aimed by rebels intent on financing mayhem to humans in the form of civil war, terrorism or other uncivil actions.


Why did the blood diamond war start?

Due to the lack of $ in Africa.


What do you call someone who sells loose uncut diamonds?

Probably a diamond dealer or a diamond broker. Note that some people who sell loose, uncut diamonds that were obtained by force can be called blood diamond dealers. They trade the stones for money to finance civil war and/or terrorism.


What is the mood of blood diamond?

Diamonds are not associated with a particular mood, unless the person giving or receiving the diamond wants to associate a mood to the stone. Blood diamonds are mined, sold and traded to finance war, civil unrest and mayhem. You can associate a mood to this phenomenon if you want.


Why did blood blood diamond happen?

In relation to diamond trading, conflict diamond (also called a converted diamond, blood diamond, hot diamond, or war diamond) refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity, usually in Africa where around two-thirds of the world's diamonds are extracted. You can read more, below.


What where the horrors of the civil war?

there was alot of killing and alot of blood