Resource Wars : Consumer Commodities

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It wouldn't cross your mind at the moment, the moment a lot of people wait their whole lives for, your wedding day, that the diamonds in the ring may well have come from the war fields of Angola or Sierra Leone, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in order for regional groups to gain control of diamond fields. Nor would it cross your mind when you send a text message on your …

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