Praise for Blood Diamonds

“Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell is first-rate journalistic sleuthing, tracing the violence-soaked webs that link the legitimate diamond trade, shady dealers, rebels without a conscience, and organizations such as Hizbollah and al-Qaeda.”

—New Internationalist

 

“Campbell punctures the myth that West Africa’s descent into hell flows solely from the hands of its warlords and juvenile killers. He locates the sources in London, Amsterdam, and New York, as well as in Freetown and Monrovia. In so doing, he makes the reader fully aware of West Africa’s dead-last nations, their hellholes and hecatombs. He also insures that the news from that part of the world will never read quite the same.”

—Commonweal

 

“In Blood Diamonds, a work of impeccable reportage and meticulous research, veteran journalist Greg Campbell argues that Sierra Leone’s diamonds have inflicted terrible suffering on the region and are now financing global terror.”

—World and I

 

“The book reads at times like surreal fiction, and Campbell’s skill with language comes through in this gruesome, real-life story. He sets the scene masterfully in the diamond region of eastern Sierra Leone and graphically describes the bizarre, horrific methods of intimidation of the population by the Revolutionary United Front.”

—The Post and Courier