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The Civil War
From 1991 to 2001 there was a bloody citizen war going on in Sierra Leone. One of the main reason for this war was the fight for the diamond resources. A large percent of the guns and ammunition used in this war, was payed with diamonds. Ten thousands of people got killed during this war, about half of the population in Sierra Leone either became refugees in or outside the country, and many of these got attacked. There was a unknown number of rebel groups and a sentral group(called RUF) that was fighting against the government, because they ment that the government was using the citizens money on their self. RUF took control over many of the diamond caves in the country, and the war was much or less about these caves. The roots of the conflict in Sierra Leone, is and will be diamonds. Said Sierra Leone UN Ambassador Ibrahim Kamara said. In the year 2000, the UN banned all buying of diamonds from the country, but it did not help much. The diamonds were in place smuggled to neighbour countries Liberia and then resold. Back