True Stories

Story #1

In Sierra Leone, the conflict of Blood Diamonds was getting even more serious each day. The Revolutionary Front (RUF) started a lot of the wars over conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone. This conflict lasted over 10 years and lead to over 50,000 deaths and the displacement of over 2 million people and many whom were injured. In the later years between 1999 and 2001, the government of sierra Leone and The RUF decided to stop the war and compromise starting with the Kimberley Process. The Kimberley Process is a process that helps process Blood diamonds so that they are not found in war zones. Rebels with still try to find, sell, and kill for them. Both governments and organizations have also helped the risk children’s death. There will be more process’ like this to help the risk of more wars and deaths in Sierra Leone. The government forbid rebels to hunt for conflict diamonds since there were not really anymore in the war zones. War Zones, were the only places that you could find Blood diamonds. The Kimberley Process, came through and swept out all of the Blood diamonds and mad sure of it that there were going to be no more Blood diamonds. Even though Blood diamonds still do exist in the world today, there are none to be found anywhere. Government wanted to put a stop to the madness, and finally did.

Story #2

In Sierra Leone, the conflict of Blood Diamonds was getting more serious each day. The Revolutionary Front (RUF) started a lot of the wars over conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone. This conflict lasted over 10 years and lead to over 50,000 deaths and the displacement of over 2 million people and many whom were injured. In the later years between 1999 and 2001, the government of sierra Leone and The RUF decided to stop the war and compromise starting with the Kimberley Process. The Kimberley Process is a process that helps process Blood diamonds so that they are not found in war zones. Rebels with still try to find, sell, and kill for them. Both governments and organizations have also helped the risk children’s death. There will be more process’ like this to help the risk of more wars and deaths in Sierra Leone. -The government forbid rebels to hunt for conflict diamonds since there were not really anymore in the war zones. War Zones, were the only places that you could find Blood diamonds. The Kimberley Process, came through and swept out all of the Blood diamonds and mad sure of it that there were going to be no more Blood diamonds. Even though Blood diamonds still do exist in the world today, there are none to be found anywhere. Government wanted to put a stop to the madness, and finally did.