POLA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Tanzanite, Global Witness, Protection Racket
24 Feb 2016
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Examined connection between diamonds and war in sierra leone. Sought illicit diamonds, people who bought/sold them, connection to guns, sanction-busting, war. Problem not easy to trace illicit diamond trails. His position had been overrun; to save himself, he pretended to join the ruf. Eventually they trusted him, giving him access to all of the tops leaders (issa sesay, ibrahim bah, Spoke about the lucrative actions of such leaders (p. 134) They gathered diamonds, passed them along to each other for transmission. They had direct links between diamonds and weapons trafficking. They would buy weapons, and would pay with diamonds. Smillie wanted to find out who was the direct link between diamonds and weapons. The young soldier only knew him by the name of carlos . Later, smillie found out that carlos" real name was nicholas karras . When in jerusalem doing interviews, smillie obtained karras" phone number in london.
