The Conflict diamonds in Sierra

Leone
•We needed extreme pressure and high temperature to
produce diamond.
•The magma transport diamonds to the surface.
•Africa is the continent which responsible for producing
most of the worlds diamond.
•Sierra Leone is an African country.
•It Independence in 1961 from the united kingdom.
•The population in it about 5.1 million.
•The Currency is Leone (SLL)
•Conflict or the blood looking for diamonds in war places.
•The groups who are find the diamond sill it and use the money for
buying guns.
•The main export of Sierra Leone is diamond.
•This country is very popular in yielding gems such as the 968-
carat Star of Sierra Leone.
•Most of the production is shirking out of the country ,through
the countries which close to it like Liberia, Guinea and Gambia.
 When local people can exchange diamond with gun.
 They attack the capital in 1999 and they occupied it for three weeks.
 There are about 750000 victims in this war, not only that the rest lose their
home and families.
 The new government gain the control slowly after the help the UN
peacekeeping force
 Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone
http://www.fataltransactions.org/wareconomies/sierra_leone.html
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/secondary_spring06/focuson/conflictdiamonds.htm

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Abdul kareem Al Jaberi H00055418