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...minds of young lovers shopping for an adornment to symbolize their commitment. And you'd be wrong. De Beer's, in fact, wants every diamond shopper to know that the industry has sustained years of violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and limbs in Angola, the Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone by turning a blind eye to the origins of the stones that eventually make it into the jewelry stores - and the reason is that the South African corporation, which controls almost two thirds of the world's diamond supply, has decided to change its ways...
Twain placed Huck and Jim on the river because the river was time, motion, beauty, baptism and violence, but mainly because one could not see around the bend. Civilizations are formed by bends in the river--the Nile, Congo, Thames, Yangtze--a twist of the land, water and fate that, by making it impossible to see what comes next, raises hopes of the possibility of everything...
...school and instead joined the army, then run by Britain, Sierra Leone's colonial master till 1961. However, he reached only the rank of corporal and was assigned to radio duty. He was further embittered by serving as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported a 1971 coup attempt in Sierra Leone, was found guilty of "failing to report a mutiny" and was jailed...
...also supported the Hutu regime in the years leading up to the worst genocide our own generation has seen. In June 1994, France allowed the killing of Tutsis to continue for another month, and the French involvement even helped the genocidal Hutu leadership to cross safely into the neighboring Congo...
...troops, which would make the U.N. mission in Sierra Leone, or UNAMSIL, the largest peacekeeping force in the world. Yet last week Holbrooke acknowledged that Sierra Leone cast a "potential shadow" on all U.N. operations as he and a Security Council delegation met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa to sign the agreement to send 5,000 U.N. troops to monitor a tottering peace deal there. Holbrooke says the Congo war, which pits Angola- and Zimbabwe-backed government troops against Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebel groups, is far too complex for the U.N. to do much...