Blood Diamonds

 During the rush for diamond mining, many innocent citizens’ lives were lost in the country of Sierra Leone.  The RUF separated loved ones, kidnapped people, and “children are forced to mine” (Brown), or be threatened with their lives.  Children working at the mine were taken away from their childhood and everything they had.  The rebels “chopped off the hands and feet of adults, teens, children and even infants” (Brown), causing disability for them in the future.  With no hands or feet, they could be classified as an outsider in school or possibly in future societies.  “War over conflict diamonds” (Brown) broke up families and killed many innocent lives.  Without love to guide them, mistrust, brutality, and conflict, created a different life for children that could have lived a better life.  Like the Gold Rush in California, greed tore humanity apart, and nothing will ever be the same.