Diamanti Di Sangue: Lo Sporco Affare Delle Pietre Più Preziose Del Mondo
ISBN:
9788843035168 (8843035169)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Carocci
Pages no: 231
Edition language: Italian
A fascinating look at how the West's thirst for diamonds funds war in Africa as well as terrorism by groups such as Al Qaeda and Hezbollah. Very informative and well-written.
The subtitle to this one is "tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones." The author is a journalist and much of what he reports is first hand based on interviews from everyone involved in this illicit part of the diamond industry from miners to the middlemen to smugglers to spokesm...
A bit on the hard-drinking, crazy journalist side for my taste, though the evidence of this style is more subdued than is often the case. As an explanatory text on blood diamonds (a.k.a. conflict diamonds), it does a very good job of following the money, exposing both corrupt and ineffective systems...
The narrator was wonderful. The material he had to work with was grueling to listen to, war and atrocities. Important things to know about the diamond trade and the almost unbelievable inhumanity surrounding it. I'm glad I've always been a CZ kind of person. If I had any diamonds I wouldn't be able ...
11 years ago
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