Authors: Greg Campbell
Blood Diamonds (39 page)
Bah, Ibrahim
Barlow, Eeben
Barnato, Barney
Bastard Brigade
Bauxite
Beh (Mr.)
Beirut
Beit, Alfred
Belgium
See also
Antwerp
See also
Antwerp
Bendemba, Charles
BHP Minerals
Bila, Lahaji
bin Laden, Osama
See also
Al Qaeda terrorist network; September 11 Al Qaeda attacks
See also
Al Qaeda terrorist network; September 11 Al Qaeda attacks
Bio, Julius
Black market
Bo
Bockarie, Sam “Mosquito,”
Bolton, John
Bomboma
Bone, Andy
Bonuses
Borbor Pain Charity School of Hope
Botswana
Bout, Victor
Boycotts
Branch Energy
Brazil
Bribery
Buccaneer, The
Bunce Island
Burkina Faso
Caldwell, John
Cameroon
Canadian Barren Lands
Car bombs
Cartier, Jacques
Ceylon
Chiefs
Children
child disarmament
child miners
child soldiers
in field hospital
See also under
Deaths
Deaths
Civil wars
See also
Angola, UNITA rebels in; Revolutionary United Front
See also
Angola, UNITA rebels in; Revolutionary United Front
Cockle Bay Guest House and Relaxation Center
Cold War
Collins, Eldrid
Colombia
Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and Development
Commonwealth of Nations
Compaigne Francaise des Mines de Diamant de Cap de Bon Esperance
Conakry, Guinea
Concern aid organization
Cook, Robin
Corporate identity
Corruption
Coups
Couriers
See also
Mules (human)
See also
Mules (human)
CSO.
See
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Central Selling Organization
See
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Central Selling Organization
Currencies
See also
Diamonds, as currency
See also
Diamonds, as currency
Customs official
Dalramy, Ismael
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Daru DDR camp
DB Investments
DCSL.
See
Diamond Corporation of Sierra Leone
See
Diamond Corporation of Sierra Leone
DDR.
See
National Committee for Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration
See
National Committee for Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration
Deaths
in African war zones
of children
of journalists
of UN peacekeepers
De Beer, Johannes and Diedrich
De Beers Centenary AG
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Central Selling Organization (CSO)
closing of Conakry buying office
and competitors
and conflict diamonds
De Beers Group
ending trade on open market
incorporation of
profits of
in retail market
stockpile of diamonds of
as the syndicate
and U.S. antitrust laws
Debswana
Democratic Republic of Congo
Desaedeleer, Michel
Destruction Bay
Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession
(Hart)
(Hart)
Diamond Corporation of Sierra Leone (DCSL)
Diamond fields
See also
Diamond mines
See also
Diamond mines
Diamond High Council
Diamond industry
See also
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
See also
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Diamond mines
in Angola
capturing
described
diamonds stolen from
and former soldiers
two-pile system in
See also
Diamond workers
Diamond workers
Diamonds
amount from RUF on world market
branding rough
brilliance of
buying in the bush
certification process for
cleaving
See also
Diamonds, cutting/polishing
See also
Diamonds, cutting/polishing
as currency
cutting/polishing
database for
demand for
diamond boom of 1950s
diamond-stability fields
discovery of
and drugs
famous/large
genesis of
having magical qualities
illegal mining/sales
See also
Smuggling
See also
Smuggling
industrial-quality
origin of individual diamonds
prices
RUF sales to Al Qaeda
as symbolic
theories about origins of
Diamonds Are Forever
(Fleming)
(Fleming)
Diamonds: Myth, Magic, and Reality
(Legrand)
(Legrand)
Diamond Trading Company (DTC)
Diamond workers
washers
See also
Diamond mines
Diamond mines
DiamondWorks
Diendéré, Gilbert
Disarmament.
See
Children, child disarmament; Port Loko disarmament
camp;
under
Revolutionary United Front
See
Children, child disarmament; Port Loko disarmament
camp;
under
Revolutionary United Front
Diseases
Dollar currency
Drugs
DTC.
See
Diamond Trading Company
See
Diamond Trading Company
Eastern Europe
ECOMOG.
See
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
See
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
See also
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
See also
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
ECOWAS.
See
Economic Community of West African States
See
Economic Community of West African States
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG)
executions by
and RUF
Elections
Electricity
El-Ndine, Talal
Embargoes
See also under
Weapons
See also under
Weapons
Employment
See also
Diamond workers
See also
Diamond workers
Engagement rings
England.
See
Great Britain
See
Great Britain
EO.
See
Executive Outcomes
See
Executive Outcomes
Erasmus, J. C.
Evacuations
Even-Zohar, Chaim
Executive Outcomes (EO)
Exports
Farah, Douglas
Fawaz, Fawaz S.
FBI
Fire
(Junger)
(Junger)
Fleming, Ian
Fofanah, Mohammed
Food shortages
François (French king)
Freetown
City Hotel in
squatter housing in
French Company, The
Gambia, The
Geologists
Germany
GGDO.
See
Government Gold and Diamond Office
See
Government Gold and Diamond Office
Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan
Ghana/Ghanaians
See also
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, GhanBattâ3
See also
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, GhanBattâ3
Global Witness
Gold mines
Golley, Omrie
Gooch, Charmian
Gould, Francis
Government Gold and Diamond Office (GGDO)
Graphite
Great Britain
meeting at Twickenham (2001)
Green, Timothy
Greene, Graham
Gregg, Judd
Guinea/Guineans
See also
Conakry, Guinea
See also
Conakry, Guinea
Gurkha Security Guards
Hall, Tony
Hambrouck, Christine
Hangha Road
Hanssen, Robert
Hart, Michael
Heart of the Matter, The
(Greene)
(Greene)
Helicopters
and movement of personnel form (MOP)
Hezbollah
Hicks, Tyler
Homing pigeons
Hondros, Chris
Hospitals
Human rights
Hunger/starvation
Hunting
Import-export businesses
India
Insects
International Monetary Fund
Iran
Iraq
Ithaca, New York
Ivory Coast
Izhakoff, Eli
Jackson, Jesse
Jacobs, Erasmus
Jalloh, Kabba
Jango (RUF prisoner/contact)
Jennings, Chris
Jetly, Vijay
Jewelers of America
Journalists
Junger, Sebastian
Jungle conditions
Juniors
Kabbah, Ahmad Tejan
Kahn (diamond seller)
Kailahun
Kaimachiande, Sahr F. S.
Kalashnikov AKâ47s
invention and description of
Kallon, Daniel
Kallon, Gabril
Kamajor militia
disarmament of
SLA control of
weapons of
Kamara, Joseph
Kambia
Kenema
KGB
Kidnappings
Kimberley Central Mining Co.
Kimberley Mine
Kimberley Process
Kimberlite
Koidu
Koidu Holdings mine
Koinadugu
Koindu
Kono
Koroma, Johnny Paul
Krios
Lahia, Jusu
Land mines
Language
Laundering
Lebanese
celebrating September 11 terrorist attacks
Legislation
Legrand, Jacques
Leigh, John
Leone currency
Liberia
Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority
diamond exports of
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL)
and Sierra Leone
See also
Monrovia
Monrovia
Libya
Licenses
for arms sales
Lomé Peace Accords (1999)
Love
LURD.
See
Liberia, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy
See
Liberia, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy
LVMH retailer
MacKenzie, Robert
Makeni
Mammy Yoko Hotel
Mandeville, Sir John
Mandingos
Man Friday (RUF commander)
Mansaray, Foday
Marketplaces
Marsfrontien farm
Massaquoi, Gabril
Massaquoi, Mammy
Mass spectrometry
Matabele people
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) camp
Media
Menin, Leonid
Mercenaries
See also
Executive Outcomes
See also
Executive Outcomes
Merchants
Middlemen
Militias
See also
Kamajor militia
See also
Kamajor militia
Ministry of Mines and Natural Resources
Missiles
Momoh, Joseph
Monrovia
Hotel Africa in
MOP.
See
Helicopters, and movement of personnel form
See
Helicopters, and movement of personnel form
Morphison, James
Morrison, Mohammed
MSF.
See
Médecins Sans Frontières camp
See
Médecins Sans Frontières camp
Muana, Patrick
Mules (human)
Mutilations.
See
Amputations
See
Amputations
Nairobi, Kenya
Namibia
Nassour, Aziz
National Cleaning Day
National Committee for Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR)
National Geographic
National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC)
New Rush site
Newsweek
Newton, John
New York City
Niger
Nigeria/Nigerians
Nongovernmental organizations
Novicki, Margaret
NPFL.
See
Liberia, National Patriotic Front of Liberia
See
Liberia, National Patriotic Front of Liberia
NPRC.
See
National Provisional Ruling Council
See
National Provisional Ruling Council
Operation Clean Sweep
Oppenheimer family
Oppenheimer, Harry
Oppenheimer, Philip and Sir Ernest
Oranjemund claim
O'Rourke, P. J.
Orphans
Osailly, Samiah
Osman (RUF prisoner/mule)
Owen, Michael
Pamelap, Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Parrot's Beak
Partnership Africa Canada
Passports
Peace Village
Penfold, Peter
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Poland
Police
Pollett, J. D.
Port Kissy
Port Loko disarmament camp
Premier Mine
Prostitutes
Public relations issues
See also
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and conflict diamonds
See also
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and conflict diamonds
Qaddafi, Muammar
RapNet
Refugees
from African war zones
Retailers
Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
AFRC/RUF forces
amnesty for war crimes of
brutality of
See also
Amputations
See also
Amputations
diamond sales to Al Qaeda
disarmament of
and ECOMOG
end of
and evacuations
5th Battalion, D Company
“Footpaths to Democracy” manifesto of
Operation No Living Thing
Political and Peace Council
Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP)
stealing diamonds from
weapons of
See also
Revolutionary United Front, disarmament of
See also
Revolutionary United Front, disarmament of
See also
Jango; Kallon, Gabril; Osman
Jango; Kallon, Gabril; Osman
Rhodes, Cecil
Rhodesia
Rice
Rice, Susan
Roads
Robert, Patrick
Rosenblum, Simon
Royal West African Frontier Force
RUF.
See
Revolutionary United Front
See
Revolutionary United Front
RUFP.
See
Revolutionary United Front, Revolutionary United Front Party
See
Revolutionary United Front, Revolutionary United Front Party
Runci, Matthew
Ruprah, Sanjivan
Rwanda
Samura, Sorious
Sanctions
Sandline International
Sankoh, Foday
Saquee, Paul Ngaba
Save the Children
Saxena, Rakesh
Scams
Schneerson, Aya
Security issues
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