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No Conflict Diamonds | Tack on my agenda too, old boy

Several weeks ago, I’d written about a movie that’s currently in production, entitled Blood Diamond. The synopsis is based around the horrific civil war in Sierra Leone, circa 1999, revolving primarily around two men’s interwoven lives with ‘blood diamonds,” also known as ‘’conflict diamonds”. Which are the precious stones used to finance rebellions, privateers, and terrorists.

Bringing us to now, when upon searching for any news on the movie’s release date, I came across a press release from The World Diamond Council relating to the movie. Apparently, a few months ago during the last Annual Meeting of the World Diamond Council, Kago G. Moshashane, the chairman of the Kimberly Process and the deputy permanent secretary fo Botswana’s Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, and Eli Izhakoff, the chairman of the World Diamond Council, sent a jointly composed letter to Edward Zwick, the producer of the Blood Diamond.

Within it, they requested that the movie “provide accurate and up to date information about the conflict diamond trade in Sierra Leone”, and noted that the period in which the movie is set “predates the implementation of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme. And thus, without clearly mentioning this fact, the movie could present a distorted picture of reality to the general public.” - From their own website.

Now, what makes no sense to me about all of that is, how much clearer can the past be from the present, if it isn’t happening anymore? Is the movie now going to be responsible for the lack of education on crisis’ around the world, if they don’t find some way to adjoin the agenda of this company? Not to mention, why is the Kimberly Process Certification Process called a scheme? What is a negative connotation for two hundred Alex?

I mean, in all the situations of the world, that’s on the agenda of the Council set to end such? And haven’t they heard, even bad press is supposed to be good press. Without even needing to wrest creative control through outside sources, that don’t accurately deal with the situation as it was in that time frame anyways. Or maybe we should just make sure all movies begin with the aftermath of the end. I mean, that wouldn’t not make sense or anything. No. Not at all. Maybe we could even tack on an addendum reminder of that little thing called the first amendment too.

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