By: Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé "Ian Smillie is lying through his teeth." With these words, former warlord and Liberian President Charles Taylor denounced the man who would implicate him in Liberia and Sierra Leone's illicit diamond trade. In Taylor's hands, Sierra Leone's sparkling baubles fuelled a litany of horrific human rights abuses ranging from rape, torture, and recruitment of child soldiers. And in the diamond mines of Sierra Leone, his violent calling card: fingers, hands, feet, and ear...
By: Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé "Ian Smillie is lying through his teeth." With these words, former warlord and Liberian President Charles Taylor denounced the man who would implicate him in Liberia and Sierra Leone's illicit diamond trade. In Taylor's hands, Sierra Leone's sparkling baubles fuelled a litany of horrific human rights abuses ranging from rape, torture, and recruitment of child soldiers. And in the diamond mines of Sierra Leone, his violent calling card: fingers, hands, feet, and ear...
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