The documentary "Blood on a Stone" traces the diamonds to legitimate mining companies in the Kono region of Sierra Leone and show that living conditions are primitive, with no schools for the worker's children, no electricity for their homes, and no hospitals. Like company-employed miners, illegitimate diamond miners, who may find a diamond every two or three years, have never heard of the Kimberly Process and have no idea of the eventual value of the diamonds for which they live and die --- and they do die. The Kimberly Process is a start, but the lives of Sierra Leone's poor still receive no benefit from even the legitimate diamond industry.
More info @ http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/programs/en/program/54/
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