Blood Diamonds by Samantha Lai- Kei CHAN

25 Things You Should Know About Blood Diamonds

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:01:53 UTC

- AKA Conflict Diamonds
- Central and West African countries
- Forced local to excreting diamonds
- 20,000 people were mutilated and millions fled the country (Sierra Leone) because of RUF
- Blood Diamonds - 4 Million deaths
- DeBeers claim that 99.8% of diamonds are conflict free
- Government gets paid off to let diamonds through so they smuggle across the borders into legitimate trading channels

Player 1

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:28:37 UTC

Guess : RUF terrorist group

Player 2

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:28:44 UTC

Guess : De Beer chairman
- De Beers company 95% of world Diamond mines.
They have created false scarcity. Diamonds is not rare.
(Distributor of diamonds)

Player 3

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:28:53 UTC

Guess : Army people, people who helps to protect the country

Who is responsible for Blood Diamonds?

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:28:57 UTC

The people who buy diamonds should be responsible for diamonds, because if you do not buy diamonds, the companies are going to shut down and they wont sell diamonds anymore. So we should stop buying diamonds to stop "blood diamonds"

Player 4

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:29:02 UTC

Guess ; Kanye, customer of diamonds

Player 5

806342 — 2017-12-01 02:29:11 UTC

Guess : Villager, victim of the terrorist group. Works for the diamond mining.

Notes

806342 — 2017-12-05 02:15:37 UTC

Buyers:
Russia, India, Europe, China
Miners:
Africa, Sierra Leon, Botswana, Kanya
Producers:
Turkey, India
Problem Linked to Blood Diamonds:
- Violence against populations
- Civil war
- Child soldiers
Child Soldiers:
What are some short term and long term impacts of using children as soldiers?
The long-term impacts of using children soldiers are most likely going to develop long-term mental health disorders and physical injuries such as bullet wounds and missing limbs, while the short-term impacts may be the abuse of drug usage.
Long-term
- Continue antisocial behavior, Psych Change, deindividuality, Non-productive member of the society

Think about the psychological impact as well as the cultural/economics.
The economics will be affected too since there will be less to no educated people to help improve the countries.