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Can people die by mining diamonds?
Mining accidents are common, including deaths in mines. As well, blood diamonds that fund terrorism can well be lethal to humans.
When did people start mining blood diamonds'?
Diamonds mined by workers at gunpoint under threat of death -- called blood diamonds for no other reason -- was first identified as a phenomenon in Angola in the 1970s. You can read more about the phenomenon of blood diamonds, below.
How many africans die once mining blood diamonds?
Everyone who dies related to blood diamonds, dies once.
How does diamonds affect the environment?
Its not so much the environment is as it the people, because the people that retrieve the diamonds are paid very little, or usually forced to collect 'blood diamonds'. That is why some people refer to diamonds as "blood money." However, commercial mining for diamonds diamonds can cause some environmental desctruction from the digging, but this is no more or less damage than mining for any other mineral.
Blood diamonds are what color?
Blood diamonds are not a specific color. The term "blood diamond" refers to diamonds that are mined in war zones and sold to finance armed conflict against governments. The term highlights the unethical and often violent nature of the diamond trade in these regions.
Who does blood diamonds effect?
Blood diamonds mainly affect the people of Africa. The diamonds are used to fund wars and terrorism. Millions of deaths are linked to the blood diamonds.
What do Canadian diamond producers do to make sure that their diamonds can be distinguished from blood diamonds?
Canadian diamond mining companies are signatories to the certification process that assures against blood diamonds, which originate in African countries. The agreement is the Kimberly Process Certification.
What country do blood diamonds come from?
Blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, come from various countries where diamond mining is associated with human rights abuses and violence, such as Sierra Leone, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These diamonds are illegally traded to finance armed conflict and civil wars.
When did the conflict on blood diamonds arise?
Most agree that the most blatant abuse of humans related to diamonds began in Sierra Leone in the early 1970s. Others will insist that mining diamonds has always 'taken advantage of' and 'abuse' those people who work in the industry, especially in Africa.
What are the problems for the locals associated with blood diamonds?
Blood diamonds are collected, traded, and dealt in order to fund mayhem, civil war, terrorism and other atrocities against humans. Locals are enrolled in digging for diamonds by hand at gunpoint, and can be killed, maimed, and lose their families to the thugs who deal in blood diamonds, a natural resource in some geographies. Any 'local' who happens to be 'nearby' during any blood diamond transaction, from mining, trading, brokering, hiding or stealing them, can be killed, maimed or otherwise abused by people whose commerce is blood diamonds.
Who benefits from blood diamonds?
people in need
Who is involved in blood diamonds?
People who trade in blood diamonds are generally criminals, terrorists and others who want to finance mayhem.
