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about the diamond mining industry. DiCaprio plays a diamond smuggler who Benin WhatsApp Number is imprisoned for smuggling diamonds mined by a rebel group to international diamond traders. He successfully escapes from prison with the intention of continuing to smuggle, witnessing forced labor and the abduction of children recruited as child soldiers along the way, all at the hands of the rebel group he was smuggling for. While the film is not based on a true story, it accurately documents human rights abuses that were cataloged.

by the United Nations years before the film was released. In the 1990s, the United Nations developed a definition of "blood diamonds" or "conflict diamonds," which refers to diamonds mined by rebel groups to finance civil wars. The film ends with a character testifying at the Kimberley Convention, also based on true events. In 2003, the Kimberley Process was established as a certification scheme for the diamond industry. The process is tasked with increasing trade
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