A New York Post article in December of 1999 warned people of conflict diamonds, saying, "That dazzling diamond necklace you buy for that special someone at a swank Fifth Avenue may be funding the activities of a cannibalistic gang in Sierra Leone. If rebel groups such as the RUF are stripped of their main source income, it would make it much more difficult for them to continue to carry out their horrible and inhumane crimes on the people of Sierra Leone...
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If rebel groups such as the RUF are stripped of their main source income, it would make it much more difficult for them to continue to carry out their horrible and inhumane crimes on the people of Sierra Leone. DeBeers, a company based in South Africa, one of the largest diamond manufacturers in the world , have stopped buying African diamonds from mines that are not owned by their company...
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