Blood Diamond

Sierra Leone, 1999

Civil war rages for control of the diamond fields.

Thousands have died and millions have become refugees.

None of whom has ever seen a diamond.

Dia.

Don't want to be late.

English boys don't go to school every day.

Every day. Just like you.

So you can become a doctor, not mend the nets like your father.

Now get out of bed before l tan your behind with my fishing rod.

You listen to your father.

And be careful on the road.

DlA: Teacher say this country was founded as a utopia. Do you know...

- ...what that word means, Papa? - Uh-uh.

Well, she says someday when the war is over...

...our world will be a paradise.

- And all this you learn in one day? - Mm-hm.

And math and science.

Oh. This is too much learning.

Tomorrow, you will stay home and mend the nets?

No, Papa.

What? So now you want to go to school every day? Huh?

Huh?

- Stay. - Papa.

- Stay! - Papa!

Jassie!

Solomon.

Come, come, come.

Pick it up. Quick.

DlA: Papa! Papa! - Jassie.

- Dia, run! - Papa!

- Papa! Papa! - Dia, run!

Papa!

Bring forward the next one. Bastard.

Bring forward the next one.

- Long sleeve or short sleeve? - No.

Young man. You must understand.

The government wants you to vote, okay?

They gonna tell you say, "The future is in your hands."

We now the future.

So we take your hands.

- No. - No more hands, no more voting.

Chop him.

Spread the word. The Revolutionary United Front is coming.

- RUF! SOLDlERS: RUF! RUF!

Bring forward the next one. Bring him forward. Bring him forward.

Long sleeve or short sleeve?

- Short sleeve! - Chop him.

Hold on, hold on. Wait, wait, wait.

Not this one. Look at him.

- Put him in the truck. - Let's go.

Bring him to the mines.

He can work. He can work. Move, move, move.

Next one, next one, next one.

Throughout the history of Africa...

...whenever a substance of value is found...

G8 Conference on Diamonds Antwerp, Belgium

...the locals die in great number and in misery.

Now, this was true of ivory, rubber, gold and oil.

It is now true of diamonds.

According to a devastating report by Global Witness...

...these stones are being used to purchase arms and finance civil war.

We must act to prohibit...

...the direct or indirect import of all rough diamonds from conflict zones.

BRlTlSH MlNlSTER: May I remind you...

...that the U.S. is responsible...

...for two-thirds of all diamond purchases worldwide...

...and l don't anticipate that demand diminishing.

GERMAN MlNlSTER: We must remember that these stones...

...comprise only a small percentage of the legitimate diamond industry...

...whose trade is crucial to the economies of many emerging nations.

The Freetown government and their white masters...

...have raped your land to feed their greed.

RUF have freed you.

- No more slave and master here. BRlTlSH MlNlSTER: It's true.

Current estimates are that conflict stones...

...account for only 15 percent of the market.

But in a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry...

...that means hundreds of millions of dollars are available...

...for weapons in these conflict zones.

RUF is fighting for the people!

RUF is fighting for Sierra Leone!

Any bastard think he would joke with me diamond, l go cut he throat.

Stop!

And we are joined today by members of that diamond industry...

...who wholeheartedly endorse your proposal.

I hope you join me in applauding their presence here.

Mr. Van De Kaap and Mr. Simmons.

Give it to me.

Don't worry. We'll be fine, huh?

Listen. You take off as soon as l'm out the door.

You don't land until l raise you on the sat phone.

NABlL: You be careful, Danny.

Don't worry. They want these guns too much to do anything stupid.

Where is Commander Zero?

I am Captain Rambo.

Right. Right, l've seen your films, huh?

I'm looking for Commander Zero, huh?

He's inside. You talk to me.

You are here to help us in our struggle against the government.

I'm here to do business with Commander Zero, all right?

All right.

You are the man, huh? You are the man.

Uh-uh-uh.

Here, huh?

Hey. I'm talking to you! Stop!

- Commander Zero. - Hey.

- l go kill you, eh? - It's fine, huh? lt's fine.

Commander Zero. Commander Zero.

Mr. Archer, come here.

Hm?

You get something for me?

And yourself get something for me, huh?

First you bring back the plane.

Are you craze? You get for pay me first for them.

This no fine, huh?

- This no fine. - Ah.

That's all you get!

Then your boys can use those crummy AK's against the government's troops...

...and their new weapons, huh?

Maybe I could kill you and take what you bring.

Then you get one more dead body...

...instead of airplane way full with grenade launchers.

So l'm think I'm gonna go to them government.

Them government, at least them go pay me, huh?

Wait, wait. Wait, my friend.

This is the thing you want? Here.

So many l not know what to do with them all.

Hey, Archer, next time, you bring satellite TV, eh?

- l wanna see Baywatch. - Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hello, hello, hello.

Papers, please.

Danny Archer, National Geographic.

You crossing into Liberia.

I've got a letter from the minister of interior and a Liberian visa as well.

I'm doing a story on the Marrakaz, who, as you know...

...are allowed to cross the border in order to get into grazing grounds.

You ever read National Geographic, huh?

- You're under arrest for smuggling. - No, no, no.

Listen here, my friend. Listen here, all right?

I am good friends with Colonel Coetzee.

Colonel Coetzee would not be pleased that you've interfered with his business.

Now, you know who I am, all right?

You don't wanna make trouble for me or my friends, all right?

Now, look, why don't l just look the other way, all right?

You take one or two of those stones and get something lacquer for the wife...

...or maybe the mistress, all right? We'll solve the problem right here, huh?

We'll go back to Freetown and ask Colonel Coetzee...

...how he wishes to thank...

...his business associate. Guys, take him away.

What the fuck? What's going on?

Come on! Fix that shit now!

Wasting my time here! What in the shit is that?

Fuck that stuff! Fix that shit! Damn, now need to work.

- Can't work. What's going on there? - Boss.

- Fix that thing. - I wanna go toilet. l must go now, now.

- l can't hold it in, boss. - Go, go.

Get to work. Go to work, go to work.

Fuckheads wasting my time now. How am l work in this shit?

CAPTAlN POlSON: Stop!

Spread your fingers.

Open.

Make it quick.

CAPTAlN POlSON: Give it to me.

Huh!

Give it to me.

Government troops are coming!

Go, go, go...!

No, no, no!

No! l'm not a rebel!

l am not a rebel! l am not RUF!

PRlSONERS: RUF is coming! RUF is coming!

RUF is coming! RUF is coming! RUF is coming!

PRlSONERS: RUF! RUF! RUF!

RUF! RUF! RUF!

Hey.

What did you do with it?

I'm talking to you, you hear me?

Where the diamond? The pink one.

- l saw you take it. - You're mad. l do not know you.

Liar! l saw it with my own eyes.

This big. Biggest I have ever seen.

My brothers, l go give $1000...

...to the man who cuts the diamond out of this bastard.

You the craze! You the craze!

Where is the diamond?

Where is the diamond? Do you see a diamond? Huh?

You devils have taken my family! My home! I done lost everything!

Here, look. What is left?

What is left?

If there is a diamond, you are the one who has taken it!

Liar! The man is a liar!

I know your name, Solomon Vandy! You have a name!

You have a family! And l'll catch them!

And l'll find them!

Please tell me you brought me cigarettes, bru, please.

NABlL: I just have to tell you, Danny.

The colonel's not going to be happy about you losing the diamonds.

Forget the colonel. There's a fisherman in there, all right?