[Refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity, usually in Africa where around two-thirds of the world's diamonds are extracted.]

See: De Beers  Child labour

[2012 Sept] Russia reveals shiny state secret: It's awash in diamonds

[2011] De Beers Diamond Mine on Rez: Indians in Squalor

[2008] Israel and the Ongoing Holocaust in Congo  by Keith Harmon Snow  The diamond jewellery trade in the United States is more than $30 billion annually, and 99%—everything that is not synthetic or artificial diamonds—involves blood diamonds and the above organized crime syndicates. Israel buys more than 50% of the world’s rough diamonds, and the U.S. buys two-thirds of these. The diamond factories are located in Nethanya, Petach Tikvah, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Jerusalem, and other cities around the country, but most of the offices were in Tel Aviv in the financial district on Ahad Ha'am Street

[2007] BLOOD DIAMOND DOUBLETHINK & DECEPTION OVER THOSE WORTHLESS LITTLE ROCKS OF DESIRE by Rick Hines & Keith Harmon Snow

[2007] Chloe's Blood Diamond by Keith Harmon Snow

[2007 Jan] Rinsing the Blood from Angola’s Diamonds by Rafael Marques

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