Africans : real stuff

[oXJmAuPs2005Xo]

watashi ha amerikajin desu

[oXJmAuPs2005Xo]

anata fri jelero jin desuka

[BxxMILITIA]

i betchu he's sayin a whole bunch of racist shit...stop being a pussy and speak english....

[Sentenza]

tu es puta madre

Nique ta mere putain de merde..ok now lets stop it and speak english again.

[johnnny]

back to the topic at hand

The blood diamond trade in africa, i never really read on it i will later today, and i havent seen the movie, but whats the real going on with blood diamonds in africa. Mabye mcminister could u tell us about them plz

[johnnny]

English motherfuckers do you speak it

[johnnny]

History
The United Nations (UN) in 1998 placed Angola under sanctions forbidding countries from buying diamonds from them. [2] This resolution was the first resolution of the UN which specifically mentioned diamonds in the context of funding war. In 1999 the illicit diamond trade was estimated by the World Diamond Council to have made up 3.06% of the world's diamond production.[3][4] By 2004 this percentage had fallen to approximately 1%. according to the World Diamond Council.[4]. Other estimates by Partnership Africa Canada have reported conflict diamonds as much as 15% of total production in the 1990s, with as much as 20% being sold for illicit purposes.


Angola
Angola was a former colony of Portugal, and gained independence in 1975. Although independent, the country saw civil war between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) faction, and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) faction. During this war, diamonds were traded by rebel groups to fund their war.[6] The UN recognized the role that diamonds played in funding the UNITA rebels, and banned countries from buying diamonds from Angola.[2] Today Angola’s civil war has ended and the country is now an arguably legitimate part of the diamond trade.

Sierra Leone
Blood Diamonds first came to the world's attention in the late 1990's, during the violent civil war in Sierra Leone. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels attempted to overthrow the government, and an illicit diamond trade was used to fund the war effort. As with Angola, the civil war has ended, and Sierra Leone is an arguably legitimate part of the diamond trade.


Liberia
From 1989 to 2003 Liberia was engaged in a civil war. In 2000, the UN accused Liberian president Charles G. Taylor of supporting the RUF insurgency in Sierra Leone with weapons and training for diamonds. In 2001 the UN applied sanctions on the Liberian diamond trade. In August 2003 he stepped down as president, and after being exiled to Nigeria, now faces trial in the Hague. On July 21, 2006 he pleaded not guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Liberia today is at peace and is attempting to construct a legitimate diamond mining industry. However, UN sanctions have not yet been lifted.


Ivory Coast
The Ivory Coast began to develop a fledgling diamond mining industry in the 1990’s. A coup overthrew the government in 1999, starting a civil war. The country became a route for exporting diamonds from Liberia and war torn Sierra Leone.[6][7] Foreign investment began to withdraw from the Ivory Coast. To curtail the illicit trade, the nation stopped all diamond mining, and the UN Security Council banned all exports of diamonds from the Ivory Coast in December 2005.


Republic of Congo
The Republic of Congo faced UN sanctions in 2004 because despite having no official diamond mining industry, the country was exporting large quantities of diamonds, the origin of which it could not detail.

Do we have any posters who are from these regions that can give us a better understanding of what is goin on with this?

Thanks

i encourage everyone to read on blood/conflict diamonds

[Sentenza]

Its one of the main roots of bloodshed in many african countries.

[EmperorPenguin]

Its one of the main roots of bloodshed in many african countries.

That's why you have to buy diamonds with the little polar bear etched on the side of them. They're from the NorthWest Territories in Canada. No civil war contributions there.

[johnnny]

Its one of the main roots of bloodshed in many african countries.

That's why you have to buy diamonds with the little polar bear etched on the side of them. They're from the NorthWest Territories in Canada. No civil war contributions there.

bump to that, even the james bay lowlands has had significant diamond finds

[oXJmAuPs2005Xo]

blood diamond is a really sad but good movie its fucked up that shit liked that happens but money makes the world turn

[Mcminister]

i once saw a lady get shot 4 times in the face oevr diamonds she stole....bitch was mining for diamodns with some niggaz and she got one and left to america thought niggaz forgot n came back rich......she was in a Toyota LExus they are rrealy famous cars out there and some dude was in a 504 pegeot( cants spell it) i was behind them...dude looked up was like (WTF) got out BLAM BLAM BLAM...came back BLAM i was like 9 we got ghost befor them cops came and locked evreybody up

[johnnny]

this shit is bad...........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

if it develops a longer incubation period, we are F U C K E D, i hope to god "WHO" develops a vaccine and soon....

[Mcminister]

nigga i was in africa n wasnty scared of that .....u can actually cure that joint....it comes from monkeys jst like aids...butu can get it even from touchin a dead dude who had it

[johnnny]

seriously.... i thought the type 4 cases were incurable

[Mcminister]

word......like 10 people been cured in congo back in 1999 now i think htey got much more

if u go early ur good my nigga

[johnnny]

good stuff, thats great to hear theres too many diseases out there

[Mcminister]

yea i kno way too many..but wen people from out here hear bout them they think they are worse than wat they really are

real talk i caught malaria more than 6 times....i swear on my mama

[johnnny]

real talk i caught malaria more than 6 times....i swear on my mama

you have very good doctors

[Mcminister]

nah i got treated at home each time.... jst walked to hte hospital to get checked...thiey pock u with this joint on ur finger n then u wait 15 minutes they tell u if u negative or positive n u dip go home get medicine n mama gon take care of u

[Mcminister]

african hospitals are so bad....some people get shot in the legs and die bleeding in the hospital

i got family members who went to hte hospital and died off of nimonia not coz the doctors cudnt cure them but jst coz they didnt kno wat it was

[A Ghost]

i done dropped it

no me porta. . . .

nihongo ga wakarimasuka?

anata ha baka gaijin desu.

多数は持っている肉体関係の捕獲物を多くの病気時間を計る

[A Ghost]

ホモ

[BlaKK]

LOL @ dude and his nazi linguistics.

[A Ghost]

LOL @ dude and his nazi linguistics.

LOL, my bad I was just bored.

I looked up his words and it came up as japanese so I tried to translate it but it didnt work..



In the last one I called him a homo

[BlaKK]

i was talkin about white boi, not you ghost use the homie.

[A Ghost]

LOL @ Nazi linguistics


The guy that hotel Rwanda was based on spoke at my college a few years back

[BlaKK]

lol

[A Ghost]

i was talkin about white boi, not you ghost use the homie.

I gotchu

[A Ghost]

u white? black? fuckin Chinese? fag? straight? queer ass confused ass nigga, the fu-- out my fuckin face.

lmao

[A Ghost]

real talk i caught malaria more than 6 times....i swear on my mama

LOL

That reminds of that "Im so hood" thread

[EmperorPenguin]

LOL @ Nazi linguistics


The guy that hotel Rwanda was based on spoke at my college a few years back

Don Cheadle's character or Nick Nolte's character?