Blood Diamonds is a television documentary series, originally broadcast on theHistory Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations:Sierra Leone andAngola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known asblood diamonds. As with many History Channel specials, its original airdate coincides with a mainstreamperiod film, in this case,Blood Diamond (2006). The producer of the documentary was Bill Brummel.

The episode follows typical documentary format, hopping from topic to topic between commercial breaks. The topics discussed are as follows:

• A brief history of Sierra Leone's civil war, and the group which funds this war through blood diamonds, theRevolutionary United Front (RUF)
• Interviews with victims of the blood diamond trade, most prominently civilian amputee victims
• A brief history of theDe Beers Group, their connection to the trade, and their response to more recent public criticism
• The experience of one man, Usman Conteh, and the personal strife that the conflict brought him
• Interviews with civilians forced to work for the RUF, often forced to steal from, harass, and even kill their neighbors and, occasionally, their own family members
• Interviews withwarlords involved with the conflict
• TheUnited Nations' slow response to the atrocities
• The fall of the RUF

• Blood diamond (disambiguation)

• History Channel's Blood Diamonds (YouTube)

• 2006 American television series debuts
• 2000s American documentary television series
• History (American TV channel) original programming
• Blood diamonds

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