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Issue Position: Foreign Policy, Trade, & Defense - Conflict Diamonds

Issue Position

Issues: Defense Trade

I am in favor of legislation to address the issue of conflict diamonds. So-called "conflict diamonds" are mined in rebel controlled areas of Africa with the revenues of their sale used to fund insurgencies and horrible human rights abuses. The trade in conflict diamonds has funded maiming, kidnapping, torture and murder in many parts of the world.


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