Thabo Lerotholi is right when he says “there is still no way to know for sure whether one is buying a blood diamond” (How many miners would you kill to slip that diamond ring onto a finger? July 12).
However, blood diamonds aren’t just a problem in the mining sector, as the article implies. Revenue from the diamond industry further along the supply chain funds gross human rights violations, including suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity, by Israeli forces...
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