Reply #1: Nothing new about conflict diamonds. [View All]

[Oerdin]

Still the fact is there are now new international laws regulating and banning the sale of conflict diamonds so it is a bit lame to dig up stuff from 11 years ago when corrective action has already been taken. It still sucks but look around to every civil war in Africa's history (and there have been crap loads since independence) and you'll find both sides financed their war effort by selling raw materials. Most of those sides also commited war crimes. Why just single out diamonds when people who bought oil or bananas or cocoa or palm oil or boxite or are all equally guilty of buying goods from bad people?