Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war‚ for instance‚ could not have continued without profits from diamond sales‚ which funded the murderous Revolutionary United Front (RUF). For this reason‚ in early July 2000‚ the United Nations (U.N.) imposed an 18-month ban on diamonds imported from that west African country. A week later‚ De Beers‚ the world’s largest diamond seller‚ announced a number of changes in its practices‚ and a week after that‚ an international gathering of the diamond industry called for
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plant in Sierra Leone in order to produce consumer goods. My research will be based on a variety of social‚ economic‚ and political factors. The first factors based on my research that will be discussed are the social factors that take place in Sierra Leone. As a result of high population growth and a deadly civil war that ended in the year 2002‚ poverty still remains widespread throughout the country. This information is important because the severe economic that went with civil war and social
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Sierra Leone Background The Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone (RUF/SL) invaded Sierra Leone from Liberia in March 1991. Initially they claimed to be a political movement supporting ‘liberation’ and ‘democracy. Instead the RUF‚ in reality‚ was an insecurely combined organization of mainly rebellious young people that inflicted mortal disaster throughout the country of Sierra Leone. The political revolution message failed to attract popular support‚ the RUF board on a barbarian ten-year
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Consequences of Sierra Leonese Diamond Trafficking The country of Sierra Leone‚ surrounded in the North by Guinea and in the South East by Liberia‚ acquires its wealth due to its supply of many mineral resources such as diamonds‚ chrome‚ bauxite‚ iron ore‚ and rutile. Sierra Leone has many diamond mines and the qualities of the diamonds are known to be top-quality gem diamonds. Since there is a large demand for diamonds this allows the country to become wealthy. At the end of the Liberian Civil War in 1999
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Intro to Graduate Humanities 8 June 2013 Psychological effects on Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone and the Reintegration Process Broad History: The Sierra Leone Civil War began in 1991 and lasted eleven years‚ leaving over 50‚000 people dead. It started when the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) began taking over territories all over the country that were rich in diamonds. It is estimated that 11‚000 child soldiers were recruited and‚ most often‚ forced into joining the RUF. They
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Capitalism‚ Sierra Leone’s downfall and the reason for the extraordinarily terrible things we do to one another in the chase for the all-mighty dollar. This downfall was the outlined theme throughout the film Blood Diamond. In 1999 Sierra Leone was suffering from a civil war involving the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the government. The RUF were a group of African rebels who fought believing they were doing the right thing and setting the people free from the clutches of the corrupt government
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Sierra Leone or officially called as Republic of Sierra Leone is located in the Western portion of the African continent. It is surrounded by Guinea in the North‚ Liberia in the Southeast and Atlantic Ocean in the Southwest. It has a total land area of 71‚ 740 sq. km. and a population of 5‚ 879‚ 098 as of July 2015. The said country experiencing tropical weather. Their major religions are Christianity and Muslim and their usual language are English‚ Krio (a Creole language derived from English) and
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According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Development Programme (2007) the civil war in Sierra Leone was … [A] decade-long …marked by widespread human rights abuses‚ the collapse of the central government‚ and destruction of public capacity to provide any services or protection for its people. [The war displaced] more than two million people…widespread of sexual violence [with a record of] more than 1‚800 victims of sexual violence…[as] 55 per cent
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Pop cultural music in Sierra Leone‚ is creating social change and a new political identity for its youth From the over capacitated concert halls in the energetic urban centers of Sierra Leone to the front lawns of its parliament buildings in Freetown‚ forward looking Sierra Leonean youth are making use of their newly founded freedoms of expression‚ which came to being in the aftermath of the nation’s brutal civil war to create social change. In these vibrant communities you can hear musicians
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West African country Sierra Leone. In the late 1600s‚ Sierra Leone was the first place to ever house‚ sell‚ and trade transatlantic slaves (Edsall‚ Healey‚ and O’Donnell). Nearly a decade later in 1787‚ “British abolitionists and philanthropists establish[ed] a settlement in Freetown‚ for repatriated and rescued slaves”(“Sierra Leone Country Profile”). The British had control of Sierra Leone until April 27th‚ 1961‚ when Sierra Leone was finally declared independent (“Sierra Leone Country Profile”)
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