AFRICANS PAY WITH BLOOD WHEN PRECIOUS RESOURCES ARE DISCOVERED; PART I
In the History of Africa, whenever a substance of high quality and demand is discovered, people die in Multitude!
Millions had paid with their blood for any precious discoveries e.g Gold, Rubber, Diamonds, Ivory, Crude Oil etc. When some of this items came to the attention of the Western World; souls perished, villages burnt, Children were raped, fathers butchered, Mothers molested and the universe weep for this innocent ones.
According to Global Reports, many of this precious stones and elements discovered in some African Countries are purchased to broker Arms deal and finance civil wars in these African Nations and several developing regions alike. There was little or no prohibition of importation of this resources directly or indirectly from several of the conflicts zones in the history of the Blood spilled in the Continent.
The Free World and it's Government had Raided many Rich in Resources African Countries to satisfy their Greed, creating a Slave and Master psychology to consume the minds of victims. In Congo, Serria-Leone, Gabon, Nigeria etc millions died for the resources of their lands because the Capitalist countries had taken a sudden interest in their riches.
DIAMONDS SOAKED IN BLOOD
This is one of the World's most precious metal if not the most, known to be a symbol of Elegance, Beauty, and happiness with wealth. But this same gem had left millions dead from civil wars and conflicts that had left millions more injured. Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC), Ivory Coast, Angola, Sierra-Leone, Liberia had been through many civil wars and dozens of conflicts that had been funded by Billions of Dollars made from the illegal transactions of this precious stone.
Although KCPS- The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme created in 2002 which was implemented by the United Nations to prevent this "Blood Diamonds" from being traded in legit Precious Gems tradings. But it never helped because the Reigning Terror Group e.g "Al Qaeda, ISIS" made millions of Dollars from Illegal dealings of Diamond to launch attacks on countries in the Western World and all over the Globe despite the Kimberly Process.
In Central African Republic, it was a case of financing both sides involved in the Civil war as to who takes control of the Country's Diamond. This war killed thousands of pf lives with millions displaced by funds from Diamonds been sold to the Free World. Capitalist countries want to get hold of all the minings and tradings and the only way they could achieve this is by supplying Arms in exchange for Diamonds to both sides involved in the indigenous war.
Survivals are still soaked in an emotional quagmire, the consequences of this war still linger on with several families missing, leaving scars and traumas in it wakes, this war had created a politically and economically imbalanced region in Africa, where the Billions of US dollars worth of their Natural resources could not save them but had caused harm to these ones. Many of the Child soldiers created are still killers, the ones rescued were damaged beyond repairs and these memories might remain for generations to come.
Approximately, Blood Diamonds yields about 15% of the $6.8 Billion world annual Diamond production, take this percentage out; it is still a major Booming sector. The reason why some of the countries where the gems are mined are thrown into disarray is unknown. Since the end of the cold war with "Bipolar-based international security regime", total peace and order had been a scarce commodity for several post-colonial African countries which had placed the aforementioned into Psychological and Socio-economical shambles.
With many emphasizes on this troubled regions in terms of Diamond mining, there are few places in Africa where Diamonds and some other precious metals are not mined in Blood and not at the cost of many lives with mutilated bodies.For example;
Bostwana also has Diamond
South Africa, Gold
Guinea with Bauxites
Madagascar, Nickel
And a couple more countries where these savage wars never caused destabilization and retrogression. In January 2003, 40 countries signed the Kimberly Process in an effort to stem the flow of Conflict diamonds, but illegal Diamonds are still finding their way to the international markets. It is the consumer's decision to trade and wear conflict free precious gems; which had not claimed millions of lives.
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Its a thing of joy to discover precious resources but pitiful and painful how millions of people dies and pays with their lives for what they would have lived to enjoy its benefits, especially here in Africa.
Its pertinent to mention that while developed countries try to exploit, explore and harness the usage of these precious resources, the government tries to manage the resources in order for it to spread across other parts of the nation while the indigens who feel marginalized resolve to fighting the government and disrupting peace, which end up claiming lives.
There is something we need in Africa that we have not gotten yet.
All true brother...
As for me, I wish i can discover a goldmine where i can dig diamonds 😀😀😀
Thanks for sharing this historical event
Only If wishes were Horses...
This is a post that should be touched as far as the mineral resource of this land is concerned. Thanks for this presentation @Oluwoleolaide for what you have drop. In fact you have done well sir.
In a land bless with all what we want; crystals, gold, diamond, crude oil.... Such part where these resource should not be a place of violence and other part of war and indulgence instead, they should be enjoining for the what they have been bless of.
I see no reason why cold blood of innocent should be shed and many go for sacrifice of the nation.
There should no reason for hardness of getting those resources through had and thorough labour, instead provision of well extracting machine should be provided to ease this process...
May God bless the land of Africa.
Odigba kan na...
The Freeworld never see it that way, all they want is to get richer.
We die from thing from free gift of nature... Nice post
How true is that?
For an aggrieved and exploited soul, your well-written blog post is a huge inspiration. In India's northeast, the natives are facing a similar exploitation.
Wow, glad this post finds you my friend and thanks for reading.
Couldn't agree more with this post. The imperialist always come with double face to keep stealing and sow seed of hate leading to wars for their benefits. I wonder which war that has not benefited these guys. But of course in this Hobesian world life must keep on being as it should be for Africa while the imperialists continue to thrive at their expense but for how long before Karma sets in?