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Blood diamonds stain India's glittering trade - Black market in smuggled gems continues to fund Africa's deadly conflicts
As the centre of the diamond polishing trade, [Surat, India] processes 92 per cent of the world's stones in foul sweatshops and state-of-the-art factories... [An] investigation by The Observer has uncovered a damning consequence [of India's diamond trade] - evidence of the sale of blood diamonds on the black market from the Ivory Coast and Liberia, both banned from trading by the UN... Campaigners say [India] continues to ignore Dickensian working conditions and the use of child labour [among diamond polishers].