What is a blood diamond?

Question

Is it, trade of diamonds, for arms?

(My history teacher confused me last semester)

Answer 1

In relation to diamond trading, blood diamond (also called a converted diamond, conflict diamond, hot diamond or a war diamond) refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, in order to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or supporting a warlord's activity, usually in Africa

Answer 2

blood diamonds are diamonds taken from a african conflict and used to make powerful ppl rich and to pay their armys,aquire more weapons. most countrys boycott these jewels to keep money out of evil ppls hands

Answer 3

They are commonly referred to as "Conflict" diamonds as well.

Answer 4

A blood diamond is a diamond that was mined using slave or prisoner labour in countries where wars still happen over diamond mines. The word 'blood' is used to refer to the people who die in such conflicts.

A lot of progress has been made in the past 2 decades towards fixing this problem. Many of the conflicts have settled somewhat, and diamonds are now required to travel with a full history of the exact mine they came from, where it was shipped for this and that, and all the way to the store where you buy it as a ring or necklace. By tracking diamonds like this, jewelry stores can prevent selling blood diamonds by only having stock that is certified legal.

Answer 5

blood diamonds are an expression of the cruel slave labor they used to find the diamond in africa

Answer 6

it is a diamond smuggled from Africa, in which the money is used to finance terrorist actions