Blood diamonds from Sierra Leone (14 photos)

Diamond mining in Sierra Leone - a dirty business. According to estimates, the total cost is now produced in the country of diamonds - 320 million euro; but a very small part of the money remains in the miners, as stated in «Diamond Industry Annual Review», the report published by a coalition of NGOs. It says that the Kono District (Kono), where there are about 250 thousand miners, is one of the poorest areas of the country. From 10% to 20% of diamonds in jewelry stores in London, Tokyo, Paris and New York extract inhabitants of these places. However, the diamond area are already severely depleted by numerous developments.
In Sierra Leone, diamonds continue to be used to finance rebel groups - the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), which counteract the objectives of the international community to restore peace in the country.