Return Ticket - Sierra Leone: From Blood Diamonds to Stones of Hope?

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Twenty-five years ago, negotiations began in the Kimberley Process, aimed at putting an end to the trade in "blood diamonds", the blood diamonds, made famous by the civil war in Sierra Leone. Pointed out for its complicity, the diamond industry has since sought to wash its image, highlighting an ethical turn and a more virtuous economy. But a quarter of the century later, did the old blood diamonds really become synonymous with development?