I saw this movie last night called blood diamond. It left me in a sour mood and with a sour taste in my mouth.
Its about the civil war in Sierra Leone which started because diamonds were discovered in this area which both the government and the Rebels (locals) want control over. The Rebels use the revenue from these diamonds to further fund the war, by buying sopisticated arms and training (even underage) locals, hence causing more bloodshed.These diamonds are termed conflict diamonds and they say that this problem has been solved to a large extent by curbing the sales of these conflict diamonds,by certain international governing bodies,but not entirely.
After having watched the movie a lot of people said that "now I never want to buy a diamond" but I wonder if the war started because of the buyers' vanity or whether the war just feeds on it. This sort of a civil war had happened before because of ivory and other things as well, so I cannot help but blame the people in question rather than the diamonds.
4 comments:
All philanthropy begins with a "selfish" motive of getting something out of it - like personal satisfaction for example. Don't question motives. Motives are too large and fuzzy for our comprehension.
I know i completely agree with u anonymous. Thats why i dont feel guilty about the selfishness part of it.
Why Africa Pallavi. You can help people in India too. You just need to travel to poor villages may be some places in Orissa, MP..infact every where...Travel part should not be an excuse as not to help..
is there no such thing as selfless love ??!!
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