• Sanctions and War

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• Fuelling wars

   

    

  Rough diamond  caches have often been used by rebel forces to finance arms   purchases  and other illegal activities 

  • cache: a large amount stored or hidden somewhere
• In Angola and Sierra Leone, conflict diamonds continue to fund the rebel groups

  • rebel group: a group that is against the government, usually is violent and uses guns and bombs
• Conflict diamonds are diamonds
• are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments

  • fund: to give money and goods
    
    opposition: against
• Rough diamond caches have often been used by rebel forces to finance arms  purchases and other illegal activities.

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