Blood diamond - not exactly a review

I didn't know the movie would be such a sad account of civil war that raged in Sierra Leone in the '90s and is still on in Democratic Republic of Congo, and some parts of Cote d'Ivoire. Although war in Angola and Sierra Leone are over but things are still not settled.

I mean when it is a true story, it seems to hurt a lot more than any 'story'. And it hurts even more to know that you are or have been a party to the crime that is happening somewhere. But there is no more excuse of being ignorant.

People, if you do not know what a blood diamond is than please read about it here. A blood diamond is termed so because it has been responsible for the blood shed of a human. Diamonds have been used to fund buying of arms by the rebels in these African countries [and resulting in death of around 4 million people]. So if you as a customer is not ensuring that the diamond that you are buying is conflict free, it could be a smuggled diamond and might have been responsible for men dying, women and girls raped and killed, and children made soldiers or their limbs butchered.

You can find more resource about the conflict diamonds here.

Therefore, we as a jewelry-obsessed nation with our moms, sisters and everyone wanting to buy more jewelry [and increasingly diamonds nowadays], it becomes all the more important for us to ensure that we are not buying anything that has been directly responsible in someone's death.