the Congo...WHY?
the Congo...WHY?
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- unfittoprint0
'that shit is all going down because of the fuckin diamond industry... '
lilbabyleg, these was recently a subject I discussed with my father, especially after watching this impressive documentary about the diamond industry. What I saw there was confirmed almost in its entirety by my father and people that lived in Angola and other southern African countries. The range and power by these diamond companies (especially Antwerp's Beurs) are quite scary. We're talking subsidzed wars, puppet governments and agressive market monopoly (paying politics and other key players, Portuguese or otherwise, to keep their mouth shut)...
some (small) research on this subject:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/w…