Blood Diamonds the Prologue in Research Paper

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101). Plus, diamond mining hires over a million people, Weeks adds.

On page 114 Campbell explains that at about the same time -- ironically -- that he was being pitched by the De Beers people about the "huge economic impact that bad publicity about conflict diamonds could have on sales" planes piloted by Al Queda were crashing into the World Trade Center. And also at the same moment as those two other September 11, 2001 events, representatives from thirty-five countries were meeting in a soccer stadium forty-five miles outside of London. They were from the U.S., Russia, Australia, Egypt, England, Canada, and Bangladesh among other places, Campbell explained.

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Those representatives he spoke of were international diamond industry leaders, and their purpose in meeting (part of the "Kimberley Process") was to "figure out the best way to handle" the bad publicity (press reports) from conflict mines, severed hands, and violence associated with smuggling in Africa (p. 114). Campbell (p. 114) is sorry he missed that conference; but it was bad timing to hold a meeting that sought to counteract the image of diamonds funding violent insurgencies at the same moment as thousands were dying in two tall buildings in New York City --….....

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