A Treasure Found Among Blood Diamonds, an essay by Deborah George on NPR, Weekend Edition Sunday, March 8, 2009 ·

"Every war brings new words and phrases into the lexicon. During the civil war in Sierra Leone, Americans learned about "blood diamonds." For more than a decade, rebels in that country kidnapped thousands of children to fight with them and to help them extract the diamonds that lay under the earth. Those diamonds were then traded for guns and ammunition. In 2001, I was in Sierra Leone reporting on how the worldwide trade in illicit diamonds was fueling the war. . . . " 
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