Blood Diamond - Sierra Leone

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This movie shows that multinational corporations and rich nations are responsible for global poverty through paying rebel groups for natural resources. More specifically, in Blood Diamond, European nations were paying for diamonds gathered by rebel groups in Sierra Leone who used child soldiers and weapons. These rebel groups were able to continue their rage throughout the country because the richer nations and multinational coporations were willing to pay them for their national resource, which was diamonds.

Nations like Sierra Leone who sell natural resources are even able to ship their diamonds to a neighboring country and gain profits from it, since they would use that nation as a "middle man". In this movie, the CEO of a paying diamond company insisted that they would not buy conflict diamonds, yet they were still able to by purchasing them from the neighboring countries the rebel groups shipped it to.

For these reasons, bad government is not the only thing to blame poverty on. It could also come from rich nations and multinational corporations who are willing to buy certain goods no matter where they come from or what it takes to get them.

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