Diamonds are girls bestfriend. think again.

my dream engagement and wedding ring is a simple ring with diamond on it. but after watching blood diamond last night the dreamy rings seems to be wrong for me. If u already seen the movie, u would see how miserable it is for africans to search diamonds. well, this movie isn't based on a true story but the events on the movie are real. basically it's a bout a smuggler,an american journalist and an african fisherman. the smuggler wants a diamond,the journalist needs  a story and the fisherman was hoping to re-unite with his family. the story starts when Solomon (fisherman) was taken by the R.U.L.E people and was seperated by his family. the R.U.L.E people made him a slave at the diamond mine at there he found a big diamond. the head of R.U.L.E  saw Solomon holding the diamond and ordered him to hand in the diamond. but luckily, the army ambushed the mine and Solomon was able to bury the diamond before he was taken away by the army. the R.U.L.E and slaves were taken to prison and there Danny Archer (Leo D Caprio aka SMUGGLER) met Solomon and over-heared the conversation between Solomon and the RULE head. Danny was in prison as he was caught smuggling diamonds. after danny was bailed out of jail he met Maddey (the american Journalist) who was in need of diamonds dirty business. Danny promised Solomon to help him find his family if he gives Danny the diamond he buried. To find Solomon's family Danny needs Maddey help and Maddey will help if Danny gives him details and proof for her story. Complications came when Solomon's son became part of the RULE people. When I saw how tragic it is to for a person to work in the diamonds mine, i felt sorry for them. People around the world will enjoy showing off their out-numbered carats of diamonds but to find one little bit of that stone, they have to kill a number of people and leave people in Africa homeless and become slaves. i don't know if these events are still a big issue in Africa but from what i know, these are still on-going. smuggled diamonds are less in market but they are still doing this dirty business. who doesn't want to buy cheap and sell the stones for million dollars? continue buy diamonds and you let 2000 people suffer and die. children were trained to shoot and kill, woman and daughters become refugees, and man become slaves. I'm hoping that these kinds of events are already gone now. if these sufferings are gone, then i am thankful for those who took the step to end all these. but i am promising my self not to buy diamonds because i am firmly sure that there are still people out there treated like animals to get one bloody diamond.