BLOOD DIAMOND

Hundreds of miners search for diamonds at Congo Creek, outside Koidu, the diamond capital of Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

A trader inspects a diamond. An estimated one million Africans earn pennies a day in the $60-billion-a-year diamond industry.

The head of a residence for amputees talks with his daughter. Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

A poster in the offices of a large South African diamond mining company in Koidu.

Hundreds of miners search for diamonds at Congo Creek, outside Koidu.

A diamond trader in his office.

A miner shows off a diamond on his tongue.

Koidu, the diamond capital of Sierra Leone, has no electricity, no telephone lines and little indoor plumbing.

Hundreds of miners search for diamonds at Congo Creek, outside Koidu.

Koidu, the diamond capital of Sierra Leone, has no electricity, no telephone lines and little indoor plumbing.

Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

An associate prays in the office of a diamond trader. The trader's two bodyguards look on.

A boy plays with a tire in Koidu, the diamond capital of Sierra Leone. The town has no electricity, no telephone lines and little indoor plumbing.

Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

Miners search for diamonds in the mud at Congo Creek, outside Koidu.

Sierra Leone rebels, financed by diamond smuggling, dismembered thousands during a decade of war.

A seller holds raw diamonds in his hand.