From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #84 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, April 7 2000 Volume 05 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: dennis [Monya De ] Alloy: diamond wars (COMPLETELY OT) [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: diamond wars (COMPLETELY OT) [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:33:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Monya De Subject: Alloy: dennis Dennis, I'm around this weekend if you're here and want a tour of Stanford ;) monya ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:22:46 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: diamond wars (COMPLETELY OT) Many of you may remember the long rant I posted here a couple of years ago, about the brutal wars in Africa... to quickly remind you (and for those who were not with us then), these are actually turf wars which are being funded by the diamond industry in order to gain land rights. I'd first heard of this on BBC Radio and I could not have been more horrified by the reporter's story of whole cultures being torn apart, rampant slaughter of innocent families, and the unspeakably cruel exploitation of children as 'soldiers' in this war, all just to line the wallets of a certain diamond conglomerate. The journalist could not give out the name at that time, because he felt that those in charge were so powerful, and the network of corruption so widespread, he literally feared for the safety of his own family if he should reveal it. It all resulted in my begging everyone I knew not to buy diamonds, to say the least.... Well, much to my elation, after all this time, the story has finally made it to the front page of the New York Times!!! go to: http://www.nytimes.com/ if you wish to be informed (it's a quite long story but well worth reading) If you receive the digest version of Alloy & want to look it up at the NY Times site archives, the article is in the Thursday, April 6, 2000 edition, and the article is titled "Africa's Gems: Warfare's Best Friend". Now it's in the NY Times.... let DE BEERS try to deny it. My tremendous respect goes out to that very brave BBC reporter who first broke the story more than a year ago. Thanks for listening to me rant.. again... on the subject, Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:58:56 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: diamond wars (COMPLETELY OT) the address for the complete series on the subject is: http://www.nytimes.com/international Robin T going away now... ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #84 **************************