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Front cover -- Praise for this book -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Also by Ian Smillie -- Table of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Getting There -- Chapter 2: Sierra Leone -- Chapter 3: The Heart Of The Matter -- Chapter 4: Nigeria -- Chapter 5: My Brilliant Film Career -- Chapter 6: Ramblin' Boy -- Chapter 7: The Far Country -- Chapter 8: Cement, The Vasa, And The Mary Rose -- Chapter 9: Hey Jute -- Chapter 10: Among Equals -- Chapter 11: Baba And The Maulana -- Chapter 12: The Feminine Mystique And Sharia Law -- Chapter 13: The Body Count -- Chapter 14: Liberation -- Chapter 15: The Land Of Lost Content -- Chapter 16: Intervals -- Chapter 17: The Cold Hand Of Charity -- Chapter 18: Pakistan -- Chapter 19: Isles Beneath The Wind -- Chapter 20: Back In The USSR -- Chapter 21: Tiananmen Redux -- Chapter 22: Six Ladies From Dortmund -- Chapter 23: Fighting Fire With Misfire -- Chapter 24: Hard Rocks -- Chapter 25: Hard Men -- Chapter 26: Hard Time -- Chapter 27: The Obsessive Measurement Disorder -- Chapter 28: Abed -- Chapter 29: Journey Without Maps -- Endnotes -- Index -- Back cover.

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world's largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector. But behind the sparkle of the diamond lies a murkier story, in which rebel armies in Angola, Sierra Leone and the Congo turned to diamonds to finance their wars. Completely unregulated, so-called blood diamonds became the perfect tool for money laundering, tax evasion, drug-running and weapons-trafficking. Diamonds brings together for the first time all aspects of th.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- GLOSSARY -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Introduction:The age of ambition --Sonar Bangla --Arms and the man --The plan --The problem --Learning and unlearning --Dulling the edge of husbandry? --The learning organization --A chicken and egg problem --A simple solution --Of pink elephants and 9/11 --The mulberry bush --Water and milk --Millennium Development Goal 6 (Target 8) --Educating Bangladesh --Challenging the frontiers --University --On being ready --The democratic deficit --Afghanistan --The source of the Nile --In larger freedom.