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Sefadu village

Selection Trust

Senesi, Eric

September 11 Al Qaeda attacks
See also
Al Qaeda terrorist network

Sessay, Issa

Shake-shakes

Shane Company, The

Shane, Tom

Shaw, Emmanuel

Shiite Muslims

Sierra Leone

as diamondiferous

economy

founding of

independence of

and Liberia

Lunsar District

military leaders in

peace for.
See also
Lomé Peace Accords (1999)

pre-independence

See also
Freetown; Sierra Leone Army

Sierra Leone Army (SLA)

Sierra Leone Selection Trust (SLST)

Sightholders

Sillitoe, Sir Percy

Sindbad the Sailor

Singer, Jacob

SLA.
See
Sierra Leone Army

Slaves

slave trade

SLST.
See
Sierra Leone Selection Trust

Smuggling

methods for

within respected channels of diamond industry

smugglers

Solar Hotel

Somalia

Soros Foundation

South Africa

diamond industry in

Southey, Sir Richard

Star of Sierra Leone

Star of South Africa

Starvation.
See
Hunger/starvation

Stevens, Saika

Stock exchanges

Strasser, Valentine

Superstition

Supply and demand.
See
Diamonds, demand for

Swanson, Ralph

Swaziland

Sween, Matthew

Tafirenyika, Masimba

Taliban
See also
Afghanistan

Taxes

Taylor, Charles

Technicals

Tecora
(ship)

Teleservices

Terrorism
See also
September Al Qaeda attacks

Terry, Lindsey

Thomas, Gren

Thompson, Julian

Timber companies

Tissor village

Togo

Tongo Field

Torture

Tourism

T-Ray (RUF member)

Tribes

UAE.
See
United Arab Emirates

Ukraine

UN.
See
United Nations

UNAMSIL.
See
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

UNHCR.
See
United Nations, High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF.
See
United Nations, Children's Fund

United Arab Emirates (UAE)

United Nations (UN)

Children's Fund (UNICEF)

High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

peacekeeping
See also
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

Security Council Resolutions 1173 and 1176

Security Council Resolution 1306

Security Council Resolution 1343

Security Council travel ban

World Food Program (WFP)

See also
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)

costs

GhanBatt–3

United States

Chamber of Commerce

Clean Diamond Act, The

Department of Justice

Department of State

embassies bombed

House of Representatives

Marines

war on terrorism of
See also
September Al Qaeda attacks

Vaal River valley

Valdy (smuggler)

Valley of Diamonds

Van Kouwenhoven, Gus

Volcanic eruptions

Wake-Walker, Richard

War crimes

Weapons

arms trade

burning of

embargoes of

of Executive Outcomes

transporting from Liberian border

See also
Kalashnikov AK–47s; Revolutionary United Front, disarmament of

Weekes, Tim

Wellbody clinic

West African Selection Trust

West Side Boys

WFP.
See
United Nations, World Food Program

Wharton-Tigar, Edward

White people

World Diamond Council

World of Diamonds, The: The Inside Story of the Miners, Cutters, Smugglers, Lovers and Investors
(Green)

World Trade Center.
See
September 11 Al Qaeda attacks

World Trade Organization (WTO)

World wars

World War II

WTO.
See
World Trade Organization

Yearsley, Alex

Yengema

Yugoslavia

Zambians

Zimbabwe

Zirconias

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Campbell, Greg.

Blood diamonds : tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones / Greg Campbell.

p. cm.

Includes index.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02992-1

1. Diamond industry and trade—Social aspects—Sierra Leone. 2. Diamond miners—Crimes against—Sierra Leone. 3. Sierra Leone—History—Civil War, 1991. 4. Diamond industry and trade—Corrupt practices. I. Title.

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