Alison Benjamin
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/ 12 February 2007

Rough diamonds

A few minutes into Blood Diamond, the Hollywood film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the action switches from the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone to a G8 summit in Antwerp, where a senior United States state department official tells representatives from governments: ”According to a devastating report by Global Witness, diamonds are being used to fund the conflict.”