-Then Benjamin Y* introduced me to Issa. 

War criminal Issa Sesay controlled the diamond mines in Sierra Leone. He also recruited child soldiers and over-sows savage spread of rape and murder. His reign of terror was sustained by the illegal trade in blood diamonds.

-He is the chief of the rebels. He's Sierra Leone.

From 1992 to 2003, the so-called rebels of the RUF, or Revolutionary United Front, terrorized the population, torturing, raping, mutilating and murdering men, women and even infants, to seize power and diamond mines of Sierra Leone. Yet Samuel Sally apparently had no qualms in dealing with vicious warlord, a key perpetrator in a civil war that claimed some 120,000 lives and led tens of thousands mutilated.

At their first meeting, Sesay presented him with an impressive parcel of rough diamonds.

-This is the parcel I came for it, and it's all perfect stones.

The gem smuggler agreed to the 100,000-dollar asking price, knowing that its profit from the geminated sales in Antwerp would be huge. But if he want more blood diamonds from rebel h*, payment in cash wouldn't suffice.

-They want weapons, to be paid in diamonds. You have to have also stiff to do that.

Paying cash upfront, the deal was sealed on the understanding that the shipment of weapons will be arranged later. As a sweetener, the rebel commandor showed Samuel Sally a perfect, 37-carat diamond. He paid 40,000 dollars for it. Once it was smuggled back to Antwerp, Sally's finanical backer,A* , sold it on for 400,000 dollars, a staggering mark of 1000...