We saw a show on television about diamonds funding war in Sierra Leone. I can't remember the title of it though. I think it may have been this one. http://www.dvdplanet.com/details.cfm?info=GEO075200. But there are quite a few. It was very graphic.

Some of the people that were brutalized during the war had to go back to mining again because they couldn't find any other work after the war.Of course the wages are pennies and some of them just work for meals.

With the Kimberley proccess diamonds from those mines like those aren't supposed to make it into the US ( and other places). But it's not possible to keep every one of them out.