Ian Smillie

Blood on the Stone (eBook, ePUB)

Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Africa's diamond wars took four million lives. 'Blood on the Stone' tells the story of how diamonds came to be so dangerous, describing the great diamond cartel and a dangerous pipeline leading from war-torn Africa to the glittering showrooms of Paris, London and New York. It describes the campaign that forced an industry and more than 50 governments to create a global control mechanism, and it provides a sobering prognosis on its future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857286611
• Artikelnr.: 49423042

Autorenporträt

Ian Smillie has lived and worked in Africa and Asia as a teacher, consultant, investigator and writer. For the past ten years his career has focused on blood diamonds, the wars they fuelled and a scheme designed to stop them. This has taken him from the jungles of West Africa to the backstreets of Antwerp and a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he was the first witness in the trial of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor. Smillie was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
Preface
Prologue
1. Of Judgement and Cunning Work: Dirty Diamonds
2. The River of Big Returns: Geology and History
3. De Beers: The Delicate Equipoise
4. Strange Plumbing: The Diamond Pipeline
5. Angola: Another Distracting Sideshow
6. Liberia and the Love of Liberty
7. Sierra Leone: Diamonds in the RUF
8. President Mobutu’s Ghost
9. Enter al Qaeda
10. Boiling Frogs: Companies in Hot Water
11. Ice Storm: The NGO Campaign
12. Kimberley: A Hope In Hell
13. Endgames
Epilogue
Bibliography