Chapter 983 982. Blood Diamond (1/5)

Chapter 983 982. Blood Diamond (15)

After a lot of laughter, Lei Mo Ning suddenly calmed down.

He looked at Li Du with straight eyes, and said, "You may have underestimated me, Mr. Li, if I can contact them, I have already contacted them."

Li Du frowned. Since Lei Moning could contact major diamond import and export companies and evaluation companies, but the other party failed to cooperate with him successfully, it could only be explained that there was something wrong with his diamonds.

He immediately realized that the diamond in Lei Moning's hand was a blood diamond!

The diamonds produced on Lei Moning's site are blood diamonds, which are black diamonds in the traditional sense. No wonder he has to find ways to deal with these diamonds.

Many people around the world now know the meaning of blood diamonds. For a long time, diamond mining in many parts of Africa still uses the cruelest and most brutal artificial mining methods, and is plundered in the bloodiest way.

In this process, from digging diamonds to trading, blood is shed all the way, so the mined diamonds are called 'blood diamonds'.

Li Du has read the information. After entering the 21st century, there are still many small diamond mines in sub-Saharan Africa, and about 1 million people make a living by mining diamonds.

Working in these mines, miners often have no wages and only food. There are some relatively large mines, and there are even generations of miners working here, and what they get in return is only a meager salary or food for subsistence.

Undoubtedly, doing so is against morality and human rights law, but precisely, it is the white people who are now shouting that Africans have no human rights, who first invented this immoral practice.

Frankly speaking, as the initiators, the white mine owners are unforgivable.

However, over the years, with the increase of reports and the decline of white dominance in Africa, major companies in Europe and the United States have increased their salaries in diamond mines in Africa. Miners can get a contract salary, and the working environment has been greatly improved without worrying about their lives.

Now African blood diamonds are mainly provided by local warlords, who have inherited the ferocity and violence of the former white mine owners and frantically oppressed the workers in the mines.

Li Du raised his head, looked at Lei Moning and said, "The blood diamond in your hand, isn't it?"

Lei Moning took out a small bag from his pocket nonchalantly, opened it and dumped it on the table, a pile of small shiny stones appeared in front of them.

He said: "Blood diamonds? Look, where is there blood in them? The color is snow white, so they are called snow diamonds, right?"

Li Du said: "You know what I mean, if you produce blood diamonds here, it will be too difficult for you to dispose of them."

It’s no wonder that the diamonds in Lei Moning’s hands cannot be sold. In order to curb blood diamond trading, increase the attractiveness of diamonds and whitewash diamonds, in May 2000, the World Diamond Council launched a plan called the “Kimberley Process”.

Two years later, the United Nations adopted the "Kimberley Process International Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds" and began to regulate the diamond market in Africa.

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is fundamentally a regulatory regime for the import and export of rough diamonds, with producing countries managing production and the movement of rough diamonds from mines to export locations.

Each batch of rough diamonds to be exported will be packaged in a tamper-resistant container and accompanied by a Kimberley Process certificate issued by the competent exporting government agency.

In this way, if the diamonds do not have a certificate issued by a member of the Kimberley Process, then these diamonds cannot flow into the market.

Mozambique is a sovereign country and has the qualification to authorize the Kimberley Process International Certificate for Rough Diamonds, but the government will definitely not authorize a warlord like Lei Moning.

After hearing Li Du's words, Lei Mo Ning showed an angry expression, and said, "I understand what you mean, but it's not fair, it's unfair to me!"

Li Du said calmly: "The appearance of blood diamonds is the injustice to human beings."

Lei Moning sneered and said, "Blood diamond, blood diamond, blood diamond, in your opinion, Africa is still in chaos, and people are still like livestock, right?"

He suddenly changed the subject, which surprised Li Du, and said, "What do you mean?"

Lei Moning sat down leaning on the back of the chair and said, "I admit that I am not authorized by the government to mine diamonds, but if you want to say that my diamond mine is a place of bloodshed, then I am very unwilling."

The lion hunter interjected, "Lee, how do you think my mine treats the workers?"

Although the working environment of the mine he visited was very harsh, and working in it was very depressing, Li Du had to admit that compared to Africa, the lion hunter's mine was already very humane.

At least, the lion hunter also prepared beer for the workers. Although it was expired beer, how could the workers in the mine care? When they leave the diamond mine, they may not even have access to clean water.

Seeing him nodding, the lion hunter said, "You can visit the general's mine. His mine is better than my working environment."

Lei Moning said: "If you are interested, I would be happy to take you to see it. Of course, this will have to wait for you to rest and be tired from the journey, right?"

Li Du hesitated, and said: "Thank you, General, for your concern. Fortunately, I'm not too tired. I think it's okay to visit your mine now."

He didn't want to visit, because after going there, he would have more interaction with Lei Moning.

However, he has already arrived on other people's territory, and if his attitude is too tough, he will easily lose his life, so it is better to be more obedient.

In addition, he has selfish intentions. If Lei Moning's mine is really okay, he doesn't mind making a deal with the other party.

Hearing what he said, Lei Mo Ning was overjoyed, and he waved: "Come on, I'll take you around, maybe you have a wrong impression of our Mo Zanbi arming the tribe, I'll take you to the prison first .”

Along the dirt road around the mountain, they walked straight down, until the bottom of the hill was the army training ground.

In the southeast of the training ground, there is a building that looks like a breeding farm. It is surrounded by wood on the flat ground, with a roof on it, and some thatch is put on the roof to avoid rain.

There are Heige soldiers with live ammunition around the building, and several hyenas are tied here. It seems that these are military dogs.

Lei Moning pointed to the thatched hut and said, "This is my prison, where thieves, robbers, lawbreakers from the tribe are imprisoned, and some liars, damned liars!"

A group of them walked over, and a soldier opened the fence door, and Li Du saw the situation inside clearly.

It is similar to raising livestock, but the sanitation inside is very good, there are not many people, and there are many beds. It seems that the law and order on Lei Moning's site seems to be good.

Of course, it is also possible that most of the criminals were shot and there was no need to imprison them.

As if guessing what Li Du was thinking, Lei Moning said with a smile: "There are at least eight people in each prison room. You see that there are fewer people because I sent them to work digging diamonds."

When they saw the second room, a white man with messy hair suddenly rushed up and shouted at Li Du: "Help, save me, take me away! Please!"