Blood Diamonds - Episode Synopsis

Episode Synopsis

The episode follows typical documentary format, hopping from topic to topic between commercial breaks. The topics discussed are as follows:

• A brief history of Sierra Leone's civil war, and the group which funds this war through blood diamonds, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
• Interviews with victims of the blood diamond trade, most prominently civilian amputee victims
• A brief history of the De Beers Group, their connection to the trade, and their response to more recent public criticism
• The experience of one man, Usman Conteh, and the personal strife that the conflict brought him
• Interviews with civilians forced to work for the RUF, often forced to steal from, harass, and even kill their neighbors and, occasionally, their own family members
• Interviews with warlords involved with the conflict
• The United Nations' slow response to the atrocities
• The fall of the RUF