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DVD Review: Blood Diamond
Posted by george on 31st August 2007
Blood Diamond, originally uploaded by GilbertZ.
Just as “Missing” captured the horror of the Chilean coup of the 1970’s and “Salvador” the 1980’s civil war in “El Salvador” in the 1980’s, “Blood Diamond” reflects the terror of so-called rebels in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 1990’s.
Leonardo DiCaprio is brilliant as a Rhodesian mercenary caught up in the diamond trade that kept the rebels armed and fighting, with the connivance of the international diamond industry. The film depicts how the rebels kidnapped boys and brainwashed them into soldiers willing to slaughter innocents. What it doesn’t show is how girls were also taken, to serve as sex slaves and help bind the boys to their enslavers.
The guerrillas and terrorists of today have obviously not read Che or Regis Debray. The film shows how they could just drive into a village, killing everyone in sight, except those who they kidnapped as slaves and canon fodder. Che wrote that the purpose of guerrilla warfare is to win the hearts of the population. This isn’t done by widescale slaughter, and is probably one reason why the rebels in Sierra Leone and Liberia lost their wars.
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