Blood diamond

Blood diamond

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Liberia

Around the time of the 1998 United States embassy bombings, al-Qaeda allegedly bought gems from Liberia as some of its other financial assets were frozen.

Liberia

In December 2014, however, Liberian diamonds were reported to be partly produced using child labor according to the US Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.

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