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Although both of these countries sell the same thing they both faced different conflicts. Blood diamonds, which is also known as conflict diamonds is basically illegal diamond trading that occurred in Africa. Most of the trading done had to do with firearms and human rights. Many people died because of the trading that had been done. One of the reasons for deaths occurrence is due to diamonds, it is because of theft and ownership. Most people in Africa hid diamonds just to keep it for themselves and make their own individual profit but the result in doing this was death. Individuals who got caught hiding diamonds would get executed immediately. Most of the profits made was due to the illegal diamond trade have been used by gangs in Africa to purchase firearms. The small countries that were involved in this trading of diamonds were, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Sierra Leone is a small country in located in West Africa that is patrolled by Guinea on the northern side and Liberia on the southern side. From 1990 to 2000 the Sierra Leone put an end to a major war that occurred due to diamonds. The main reason the war occurred was because of the diamonds that were in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is a small country, which consists of pure diamond mining. The gangs in Sierra Leone attempted to dethrone their government, which caused a huge motivation for diamond trade. “Large amounts of diamond trades funded the war to start”(Elizabeth 272). And because of this very same particular war trade the name; “Blood Diamonds” was

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