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Brian Ross Investigates: Blood Diamonds
The story investigated the charge that ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor used blood diamonds to pay for weapons in the way against the neighboring nation of Sierra Leone. The story ultimately forced fashion model Naomi Campbell to testify at Taylor's trial for receiving diamonds from Taylor during a visit to Nelson Mandela's home.
Tags: Naomi Campbell; Sierra Leone; blood diamonds; human rights; Nelson Mandela; Liberia
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Gunrunners
PBS Frontline broadcasts a Center for Investigative Reporting report on arms smuggling. The story details illegal arms shipments from eastern Europe to rebels in Africa and failed international efforts to curtail the smuggling. The investigation also sheds light on the activities of Leonid Minin, a trafficker linked to Russian and Ukrainian organized crime.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Sierra Leone; Liberia; crime; wars; United Nations sanctions; Vadim Rabinovich
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A mother-and-child reunion
West Africa is filled with children searching desperately for one another, reports Time. The article follows the story of a girl who has been kidnapped, sold in slavery and finally reunited with her family due to the effort of the International Rescue Committee. The report looks at the hardships faced by two other children dislocated by Africa's wars, and a foster mom.
Tags: wars; Africa International Rescue Committee; Sierra Leone; Liberia; crime; kidnapping; Red Cross
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For Cruise Ships' Workers, Much Toil, Little Protection
The New York Times investigates the working conditions of cruise ship dishwashers, cooks and cabin cleaners. The newspaper found that cruise lines avoid "American minimum wage requirements and other labor laws" by registering their "corporations and ships in countries like Liberia and Panama, where laws are lax and enforcement is weak."
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Spy Magazine (New York) examines the U.S. public relation firms and lobbyist groups that represent Third World dictatorships with terrible human rights records, such as Iraq, Romania, Haiti, Zaire, Liberia, El Salvador, the People's Republic of China and Guatemala; lobbyists rationalize their representation as attempting to reform the countries' leaders by encouraging dramatic changes in the governments; Spy reporter impersonates neo-Nazi leader in Germany wanting an American public relations firm to represent her party; the public relations official agrees to represent the party, February 1992.
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