Blood Diamonds
Blood Diamonds
What defines slavery? Is it the rich using other people to help around the house or farm? Is it the use of another individual at your own expense? What I think it may be is the use of another human being for the gain or advantage of another person. In the case of blood diamonds, people are used to dig for diamonds and are treated worse than slaves. They get do not get food, water, nor breaks. They are only used to dig for diamonds at the expense of the people who ripped them from their homes and forced them to be diamond diggers or the penalty is death. Even today, after all the repercussions that are handed out, the diamond market in South Africa is still against the people who are the backbone to the operations.
Conflict Diamonds or Blood Diamonds are diamonds that originate from areas controlled by refugees or military operations that uses people as slaves or very under-paid people used to dig for the diamonds in what are known as “hot zones”. These......
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