hollywood and conflict diamonds

Last friday saw the launch in the UK of Blood Diamond, the Hollywood film about conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone in the 1990s and also the film the diamond industry has tried hard to nullify by the launch of a multi-million dollar pr campaign. Most prominent in this campaign has been the launch by the industry of the so-called 'diamond facts' website.If you want to know the real facts then you are better going to Amnesty International UK website http://www.amnesty.org.uk/diamonds/
I hope many of those seeing the film, open their eyes to the issue and start asking retailers to prove their diamonds are conflict free. On that front there are a number of donwloads on the Amnesty site which will help those buying diamonds. I was lucky enought to see a review of the filmlast monday evening and although not my sort of film i would recommend it and i think it will do a goood job in bringing thousands more people to ask questions about where their diamonds come from.