How long has the diamond been the norm in western culture? And why don’t more people know about it’s horrible past and current history? Does anybody care that this industry is run by corrupt governments, criminals, and corporations? How can people that supposeovly hold marriage sacred use the diamond as a symbol of love when it represents all that is evil? And if you don’t know the history of the diamond, shame on you for being so stupid!
spunk 113- These people did not die for you to make a profit, and your statement that what you do by selling over-priced diamonds to stupid people makes their deaths have meaning, you suck, you sound just like a jeweler. Yes, put them back in the ground, right next to all the corpses of people that died for this horrible gem.

http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/conflictdiamonds.stm

http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/wvususfo.nsf/stable/globalissues_conflictdiamonds_more

http://www.collegian.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=e5d69a28-fbf7-4cab-9f9f-dac72db9b697

http://www.commondreams.org/views/061500-101.htm

http://www.albany.edu/~bret/critical_tools/210_fall_2000/archives/timelines/lib4/2000_Deadly_Diamonds.html

http://www.davidqasem.com/

Here are just some of the sites that try to explain the horrors of the diamond, and the people that continue to pay for this evil.