Blood Diamonds

My social issue is on blood diamonds in southern Africa and what was involved in all of that. About 65% of the whole worlds diamonds come from southern Africa but these diamonds are called blood diamonds because they are used to buy weapons and fund the military they also are produced by the hard and painstaking work of women, men, and even children. Some diamonds are even stolen from legitimate producers of the diamonds. Many people kill, torture, bribe,and threaten people to get their hands on these diamonds. 

I think that this is an important topic because the way people are using this resource is horrible and it is shameful that many of these people are stealing these diamonds and doing many inhumane things to get these diamonds. I think that this just goes to show how greedy people in this world are and how they will do anything to get rich. It is also really shameful that they are being cruel to their own people. It seems like slavery didn't really matter to them and that they don't really respect each other when they really should because of slavery and what they all had to go through. They don't seem to care that so many people fought to get them freedom so that they can just kill each other for diamonds. I think that if Martin Luther King could see what these people are doing he would be really ashamed of it.