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Canadians reflect on blood diamonds, guns after taylor. Ian smillie, project coordinator for the partnership africa canada report on sierra leone, says the diamond industry, came around pretty quickly once it saw the potential for damage. However, the popular movement for the liberation of angola mpla, the national union for the total independence of angola unita, and the national liberation front of angola fnla, fought in a civil war lasting 27 years from 1974 to 2001. Blood on the stone is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated africas bloody diamond wars. More than three million people died as a result of these wars in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Blood diamonds and nonstate actors vanderbilt university. A book on blood diamonds will be published in 2010. Diamonds prs polity resources series by ian smillie 20140331 on.
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