Not in the Past

Just because some countries in Africa have reached peace, like Sierra Leone, doesn’t mean that blood diamonds are no longer a major issue. This is horribly untrue and dangerous to believe. According to Amnesty USA, there is still an issue with blood diamonds being imported globally from West Africa. About $23 million worth of blood diamonds “from the Ivory Coast are being smuggled into international diamond markets” (amnestyusa.org). Obviously this is still a grave and major issue, not to be taken lightly when people are being mutilated, murdered, and tortured for each penny of that $23 million…This problem obviously has NOT gone away.