‹ UN embargo on Sierra Leone rough diamonds, 2000

Who benefited from the UN embargo on Sierra Leone rough diamonds, 2000?

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Not that anyone caused it.

1 link · 1 account · 5 Jul 2000

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According to Edward Jay Epstein

De Beers benefited from Scholarship & press 1
The New York Times gave Epstein's view in its own words; he is quoted only as calling it "another brilliant coup". De Beers gave other reasons.

Lost. No account in our sources says who lost.

Proof 1 source

Controversy Over Diamonds Made (headline as saved from the reprint; the page title is cut off), Alan Cowell, The New York Times, 22 August 2000 (reprint by Global Policy Forum), 22 Aug 2000. Scholarship & press
by supporting United Nations embargoes on illicit diamond sales in Angola and Sierra Leone, the company has effectively enlisted the United Nations as a policeman
Another brilliant coup, in my opinion,

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