Persuasive Essay On Blood Diamonds

The estimated body count in a war-torn country country is in the estimated is over ten thousands for mining diamonds. The term “Blood Diamond” comes from rare rocks with a huge pay amount worth in a country's finances that are mined and shipped out of countries that are currently at war. The cost of these diamonds being mined and sold require lots of labor that is forced or is given a very small amount of pay. Blood diamonds need to stop being mined and sold because innocent people are being forced to mine these diamonds and dictator’s spare no one on their quest to find these precious rocks
Many countries that give out these illegal rocks do not give the respect or compassion to their workers.“... major human rights abuses and child labour, or are beset with corruption” (Dunn). To the topic this connects because people that live in the country are being forced to work in the mines searching for these diamonds. The problem for the workers was that they were not suited for the workload they were expected to go off of. “...for the KP definition of the conflict diamonds to include ‘blood diamonds’ --or those

from mines where humans rights abuses occurs” (Dunn). In the mines the people were not safe at all, they were working in fear because they were lead to believe that if the job was not done correctly they would be killed or worst.
For a country that lives in constant fear for their own lives it takes a ruler with savagery and ruthlessness to bring order and mayhem.

“Now Taylor, the former Liberian President who reportedly ate the hearts of his enemies”(Blood Diamonds Undoing). Taylor ran his country through fear of fact and rumours to strike terror into his citizens so that they would least likely to defect from the way of his rule and authority. However terrorizing his own country is not a stopping point for his rule, he committed many crimes against his fellow people. “...convicted in 2012 of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including terrorism, murder, rape and using child soldiers during a civil war…”(Blood Diamonds Undoing). This dictators had an intense and violent rule over a country that was broken over its many wars and had no sympathy for anyone below

him.
However a great deal of people would have argued or brought up that sense the country is already in disorder that it is alright for the country to sell these diamond until the country can survive on it own. A man by the name of William Jefferson was apart of an act to correctly identify if diamonds were blood diamonds or not but removed himself from the project before convicted of him being apart of blood diamond smuggling. “... trips were only related to private business interests and did not require the filing…”(Crabtree). This is very valid point but, the country has many other sellable material that they can give for getting themselves on the right trail. “...the international community in building peace in the West African nation…”(Lederer). The country has support to help them in their times of need it is up to the country officials to dictate if they should act on it
The death and rule over the countless people in war striken countries and ruthlessness of the dictator is why blood diamonds exports should be eliminated from the systems. The experts that look through all the exports that they look at the crates descriptions more thoroughly. If this problem is not resolved then the countries with diamonds might also come to the level of Charles Taylor or worst. To help bring down this problem is to place stricter system to stop the illegal diamonds being sold