The Kimberley Process is the method set up by the WDC, national governments and NGOs to try to prevent
blood diamonds - those used to fund conflicts - getting into international diamond markets.
77) To what extent has the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme been successful in curbing trade of
blood diamonds to fuel armed conflict in Angola, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe?
Through news reports and the film
Blood Diamond most people are aware of the trade in diamonds in order to support military conflict.
Campbell was summoned by prosecutors to support their allegations that Taylor received
blood diamonds from rebels in Sierra Leone and used them to buy weapons.
But Carole, who Naomi used to call her, 'surrogate mother', said the beauty and the beast were openly chatting about
blood diamonds over a dinner table surrounded by celebrities.
London-based human rights campaigners Global Witness claim weaknesses in the scheme allow the trade in
blood diamonds to continue.
Ian Smillie, a Canadian expert on the international trade in
blood diamonds who lived in the mining district of eastern Sierra Leone, was the first witness to testify, telling the three-judge panel that diamonds fuelled the war in Sierra Leone.
That movie actually put a lot of wealthy people off
blood diamonds and Beyonce (who happens to be black) had to be bribed to put on the ice for an event.
Conflict diamonds, also called
blood diamonds because of the blood shed to get them, are not sold with tags identifying them as such.
Initially meant to be a conventional action adventure about two men searching for the same rare gem, director Edward Zwick decided it should evolve into an issue-based drama about the corrupting trade in conflict or
blood diamonds, the sale of which has been used to pay for arms in countries at war.
Human rights groups contend
blood diamonds currently fuel numerous conflicts and terrorist activities throughout the world.
Amnesty screened an unrelated docu on
blood diamonds, followed by a panel discussion.
