Certified diamonds are blood diamonds too!

In recent years, as a result of U.S. backed wars in Western Africa
there have been popular campaigns against buying “conflict” or
“blood” diamonds. Rap songs, movie stars and articles in cyberspace
warn us against these tainted stones. No conscious, progressive
American would buy such a diamond.
These campaigns insist that anyone buying diamond jewelry must be
careful to select only those diamonds certified by the accepted, legal
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS). This scheme
supposedly protects Africa from diamonds mined by the perpetrators
of the deadly wars in West Africa characterized by rape, mutilations,
displacement and outright slaughter carried out over the past 15 years
or so.
The fact is though, it was the powerful DeBeers diamond cartel itself
that created the concept of “blood” diamonds, fearful that diamonds
coming out of the war-torn areas of West Africa would flood the
market and undermine their long standing worldwide control of the
price of the stones. The Kimberley process scheme is just that—their
scheme to maintain control of the world’s diamond supply.
All diamonds are blood diamonds. All diamonds are conflict diamonds.
The brutal Western imperial proxy wars in West Africa over diamond
mines have been horrific. These wars, however, are only another
chapter in the last hundred years of colonial terror as it has been
represented by the diamond trade, controlled by the DeBeers cartel. 
The legacy of the diamond is steeped in the slavery, colonialism,
genocide and terror that built and maintains the Western capitalist
system. We are the beneficiaries of this genocidal system. 
Today, diamonds from African soil are worth billions of dollars, wealth
that is concentrated mostly in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the white
population of South Africa. African people on their own land, laboring
in the mines under slave-like conditions for pennies a day have no
control over the diamond trade whatsoever and see no benefits from
its profits