16 National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives, “Sierra Leone at the Crossroads: Seizing the Chance to Benefit from Mining,” March 2009, Freetown.
17 Report of the Jenkins-Johnston Commission of Enquiry, March 2008, Freetown, pp. 85–89.
18 “Koidu Kimberlite Expansion Project Gains Momentum.”
19 Koidu Holdings untitled press release, March 24, 2011, http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/21309 (accessed Dec. 7, 2011).
20 “Koidu Kimberlite Expansion Project Gains Momentum.”
21 Mark Doyle, “Sierra Leone ‘Riddled with Corruption,’” BBC News, Freetown, Nov. 14, 2007.
22 Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission, Annual Report, 2009, Freetown.
23 “Corruption in Sierra Leone: Rich Pickings; Bad Apples Are Still in the Barrel,” The Economist, March 17, 2011.
24 David Tam-Baryoh, “Corruption in Sierra Leone: Who Will Guard the Guards?” Worldpress.org, Jan. 15, 2002, http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/352.cfm (accessed Dec. 7, 2011).
25 “Corruption in Sierra Leone.”
26 “Witness to Truth: Report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Vol. 1.” 2004. Freetown.
27 “Sierra Leone’s Corruption Problem, a Mortal Enemy: The government is having some rare success in trying to eradicate an old sore,” The Economist, Nov. 19, 2009.
28 I paid this office a visit on my way back to Freetown, asking what the FSU was doing about the child laborers I’d witnessed just up the road. The administrator I spoke to said she had no knowledge of children breaking rocks in the quarries, but said she would investigate.
INDEX
Abacha, Sani
Abdullah, Abdullah Ahmed
Abdullah, Ibrahim
Aberdeen
Abidjan Freight
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Adams, John
“A Diamond is Forever,”
Afghanistan
AFRC. See Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
Agriculture
Aideed, Mohammed Farah
Aircraft See also Helicopters
Airports
AK–47s. See Kalashnikov AK–47s
Alchemists
Alpha Zulu See also Nassour, Aziz
Al Qaeda terrorist network See also Revolutionary United Front, diamond sales to Al Qaeda; September Al Qaeda attacks
“Amazing Grace,”
Amistad (schooner)
Amnesty International
Amputations
“Amputation is forever,”
prostheses for
Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa
Angola
Camafuca
UNITA rebels in
Annan, Kofi
Antwerp
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) See also Revolutionary United Front, AFRC/RUF forces
Arms trade. See under Weapons
Asscher, Joseph
Bah, Ibrahim
Barlow, Eeben
Barnato, Barney
Bastard Brigade
Bauxite
Beh (Mr.)
Beirut
Beit, Alfred
Belgium See also Antwerp
Bendemba, Charles
BHP Minerals
Bila, Lahaji
bin Laden, Osama See also Al Qaeda terrorist network; September 11 Al Qaeda attacks
Bio, Julius
Black market
Bo
Bockarie, Sam “Mosquito,”
Bolton, John
Bomboma
Bone, Andy
Bonuses
Borbor Pain Charity School of Hope
Botswana
Bout, Victor
Boycotts
Branch Energy
Brazil
Bribery
Buccaneer, The
Bunce Island
Burkina Faso
Caldwell, John
Cameroon
Canadian Barren Lands
Car bombs
Cartier, Jacques
Ceylon
Chiefs
Children
child disarmament
child miners
child soldiers
in field hospital
See also under Deaths
Civil wars See also Angola, UNITA rebels in; Revolutionary United Front
Cockle Bay Guest House and Relaxation Center
Cold War
Collins, Eldrid
Colombia
Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and Development
Commonwealth of Nations
Compaigne Francaise des Mines de Diamant de Cap de Bon Esperance
Conakry, Guinea
Concern aid organization
Cook, Robin
Corporate identity
Corruption
Coups
Couriers See also Mules (human)
CSO. See De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Central Selling Organization
Currencies See also Diamonds, as currency
Customs official
Dalramy, Ismael
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Daru DDR camp
DB Investments
DCSL. See Diamond Corporation of Sierra Leone
DDR. See National Committee for Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration
Deaths
in African war zones
of children
of journalists
of UN peacekeepers
De Beer, Johannes and Diedrich
De Beers Centenary AG
De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Central Selling Organization (CSO)
closing of Conakry buying office
and competitors
and conflict diamonds
De Beers Group
ending trade on open market
incorporation of
profits of
in retail market
stockpile of diamonds of
as the syndicate
and U.S. antitrust laws
Debswana
Democratic Republic of Congo
Desaedeleer, Michel
Destruction Bay
Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession (Hart)
Diamond Corporation of Sierra Leone (DCSL)
Diamond fields See also Diamond mines
Diamond High Council
Diamond industry See also De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.
Diamond mines
in Angola
capturing
described
diamonds stolen from
and former soldiers
two-pile system in
See also Diamond workers
Diamonds
amount from RUF on world market
branding rough
brilliance of
buying in the bush
certification process for
cleaving See also Diamonds, cutting/polishing
as currency
cutting/polishing
database for
demand for
diamond boom of 1950s
diamond-stability fields
discovery of
and drugs
famous/large
genesis of
having magical qualities
illegal mining/sales See also Smuggling
industrial-quality
origin of individual diamonds
prices
RUF sales to Al Qaeda
as symbolic
theories about origins of
Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming)
Diamonds: Myth, Magic, and Reality (Legrand)
Diamond Trading Company (DTC)
Diamond workers
washers
See also Diamond mines
DiamondWorks
Diendéré, Gilbert
Disarmament. See Children, child disarmament; Port Loko disarmament camp; under Revolutionary United Fr
ont
Diseases
Dollar currency
Drugs
DTC. See Diamond Trading Company
Eastern Europe
ECOMOG. See ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) See also ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group
ECOWAS. See Economic Community of West African States
ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG)
executions by
and RUF
Elections
Electricity
El-Ndine, Talal
Embargoes See also under Weapons
Employment See also Diamond workers
Engagement rings
England. See Great Britain
EO. See Executive Outcomes
Erasmus, J. C.
Evacuations
Even-Zohar, Chaim
Executive Outcomes (EO)
Exports
Farah, Douglas
Fawaz, Fawaz S.
FBI
Fire (Junger)
Fleming, Ian
Fofanah, Mohammed
Food shortages
François (French king)
Freetown
City Hotel in
squatter housing in
French Company, The
Gambia, The
Geologists
Germany
GGDO. See Government Gold and Diamond Office
Ghailani, Ahmed Khalfan
Ghana/Ghanaians See also United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, GhanBatt–3
Global Witness
Gold mines
Golley, Omrie
Gooch, Charmian
Gould, Francis
Government Gold and Diamond Office (GGDO)
Graphite
Great Britain
meeting at Twickenham (2001)
Green, Timothy
Greene, Graham
Gregg, Judd
Guinea/Guineans See also Conakry, Guinea
Gurkha Security Guards
Hall, Tony
Hambrouck, Christine
Hangha Road
Hanssen, Robert
Hart, Michael
Heart of the Matter, The (Greene)
Helicopters
and movement of personnel form (MOP)
Hezbollah
Hicks, Tyler
Homing pigeons
Hondros, Chris
Hospitals
Human rights
Hunger/starvation
Hunting
Import-export businesses
India
Insects
International Monetary Fund
Iran
Iraq
Ithaca, New York
Ivory Coast
Izhakoff, Eli
Jackson, Jesse
Jacobs, Erasmus
Jalloh, Kabba
Jango (RUF prisoner/contact)
Jennings, Chris
Jetly, Vijay
Jewelers of America
Journalists
Junger, Sebastian
Jungle conditions
Juniors
Kabbah, Ahmad Tejan
Kahn (diamond seller)
Kailahun
Kaimachiande, Sahr F. S.
Kalashnikov AK–47s
invention and description of
Kallon, Daniel
Kallon, Gabril
Kamajor militia
disarmament of
SLA control of
weapons of
Kamara, Joseph
Kambia
Kenema
KGB
Kidnappings
Kimberley Central Mining Co.
Kimberley Mine
Kimberley Process
Kimberlite
Koidu
Koidu Holdings mine
Koinadugu
Koindu
Kono
Koroma, Johnny Paul
Krios
Lahia, Jusu
Land mines
Language
Laundering
Lebanese
celebrating September 11 terrorist attacks
Legislation
Legrand, Jacques
Leigh, John
Leone currency
Liberia
Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority
diamond exports of
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL)
and Sierra Leone
See also Monrovia
Libya
Licenses
for arms sales
Lomé Peace Accords (1999)
Love
LURD. See Liberia, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy
LVMH retailer
MacKenzie, Robert
Makeni
Mammy Yoko Hotel
Mandeville, Sir John
Mandingos
Man Friday (RUF commander)
Mansaray, Foday
Marketplaces
Marsfrontien farm
Massaquoi, Gabril
Massaquoi, Mammy
Mass spectrometry
Matabele people
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) camp
Media
Menin, Leonid
Mercenaries See also Executive Outcomes
Merchants
Middlemen
Militias See also Kamajor militia
Ministry of Mines and Natural Resources
Missiles
Momoh, Joseph
Monrovia
Hotel Africa in
MOP. See Helicopters, and movement of personnel form
Morphison, James
Morrison, Mohammed
MSF. See Médecins Sans Frontières camp
Muana, Patrick
Mules (human)
Mutilations. See Amputations
Nairobi, Kenya
Namibia
Nassour, Aziz
National Cleaning Day
National Committee for Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR)
National Geographic
National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC)
New Rush site
Newsweek
Newton, John
New York City
Niger
Nigeria/Nigerians
Nongovernmental organizations
Novicki, Margaret
NPFL. See Liberia, National Patriotic Front of Liberia
NPRC. See National Provisional Ruling Council
Operation Clean Sweep
Oppenheimer family
Oppenheimer, Harry
Oppenheimer, Philip and Sir Ernest
Oranjemund claim
O’Rourke, P. J.
Orphans
Osailly, Samiah
Osman (RUF prisoner/mule)
Owen, Michael
Pamelap, Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Parrot’s Beak
Partnership Africa Canada
Passports
Peace Village
Penfold, Peter
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Poland
Police
Pollett, J. D.
Port Kissy
Port Loko disarmament camp
Premier Mine
Prostitutes
Public relations issues See also De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and conflict diamonds
Qaddafi, Muammar
RapNet
Refugees
from African war zones
Retailers
Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
AFRC/RUF forces
amnesty for war crimes of
brutality of See also Amputations
diamond sales to Al Qaeda
disarmament of
and ECOMOG
end of
and evacuations
5th Battalion, D Company
“Footpaths to Democracy” manifesto of
Operation No Living Thing
Political and Peace Council
Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP)
stealing diamonds from
weapons of See also Revolutionary United Front, disarmament of
See also Jango; Kallon, Gabril; Osman
Rhodes, Cecil
Rhodesia
Rice
Rice, Susan
Roads
Robert, Patrick
Rosenblum, Simon
Royal West African Frontier Force
RUF. See Revolutionary United Front
RUFP. See Revolutionary United Front, Revolutionary United Front Party
Runci, Matthew
Ruprah, Sanjivan
Rwanda
Samura, Sorious
Sanctions
Sandline International
Sankoh, Foday
Saquee, Paul Ngaba
Save the Children
Saxena, Rakesh
Scams
Schneerson, Aya
Security issues
Sefadu village
Selection Trust
Senesi, Eric
September 11 Al Qaeda attacks See also Al Qaeda terrorist network
Sessay, Issa
Shake-shakes
Shane Company, The
Shane, Tom
Shaw, Emmanuel
Shiite Muslims
Sierra Leone
as diamondiferous
economy
founding of
independence of
and Liberia
Lunsar District
military leaders in
peace for.See also Lomé Peace Accords (1999)
pre-independence
See also Freetown; Sierra Leone Army
Sierra Leone Army (SLA)
Sierra Leone Selection Trust (SLST)
Sightholders
Sillitoe, Sir Percy
Sindbad the Sailor
Singer, Jacob
SLA. See Sierra Leone Army
Slaves
slave trade
SLST. See Sierra Leone Selection Trust
Smuggling
methods for
within respected channels of diamond industry
smugglers
Solar Hotel
Somalia
Soros Foundation
South Africa
diamond industry in
South African Mail & Guardian
Southey, Sir Richard
Star of Sierra Leone
Star of South Africa
Starvation. See Hunger/starvation
Stevens, Saika
Stock exchanges
Strasser, Valentine
Superstition
Supply and demand. See Diamonds, demand for
Swanson, Ralph
Swaziland
Sween, Matthew
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