This movies highlighted the states of some country that is rich in diamonds but they are very unstable. Civil wars, unrest happens. It also highlights the plight of the child soldiers.
Imagine you buy a toy gun to your kid who is about 7-8 years old, and in those countries, those kids of a similar age are holding real AK-47s, firing and killing ppl, without discrimination.
It is still happening in the world today.
Diamonds are a woman's best friends, but how many ppl know the diamonds that you buy for your girl-friend or wife, are conflict diamonds? As in, how much ppl had died, how much "suffering" those child soldiers had endured, how much families had broken up, just for the sake of the diamonds.
As the movie summed it up. Insist only on conflict-free diamonds. But how many can prove it? Documents can be faked, lies can be said.
That movie left me anothe questions...
"How come most of those countries that are rich in "rich" natural resources are not stable? Countries in the South Africa contingent, Middle East, always have conflicts. If everyone work towards the interest of the nation, they would have been a superpower, not the Americans.
Anyway, the movie reminds me of another 2 movies. "Black Hawk Down" and "Tears of the sun".
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