英语听力：自然百科 国家地理：钻石：黑暗的一面—10（在线收听） |
When detectives began looking for Lenonardo Natarbaktolo, his office was empty. His mobile phone went straight to voice mail. He had a jewelry shop in Itlay, but no registered home address in Antwerp, and no one had seen him since Friday before the crime. It seemed he's getaway with his brilliant and hundred-million-dollars' worth of diamonds that have disappeared at the same time.But Antwerp diamond scout detectives were also hunting international gem smugglers, like Samlh Ossaily. His illicit trip took him back to Sierra Leone. He grew up in the western African country before the civil war rejoiced it to ruin it. His father was a successful diamond merchant, passing on his passion for the glittering gems to his son. -This is me in the house and C* Town in Sierra Leone. It was a beautiful house.
His first diamond found is remembered with a kind of nostalgic reference.
-I can still see this stone in front of me all over the time. It was like the first stone I found. I was slight 10, 11 years old. That's the moment that I fell in love with diamonds. And since then, it was just in my blood.
But his blood lust for diamonds led him back to his childhood home in very different circumstances.
-Blood diamonds can never come without advanture, can never come without a huge risk.
He was buying blood diamonds from Issa Sesay, a vicious rebel leader, who would eventually be found guilty for crimes against humanity. At the time, no foreign buyer had flown into Sierra Leone for ten years. But flying was too dangerous. |
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