The Blood Diamond is a moving film about the diamond wars that occured in Sierre Leone, Africa. The country broke out in civil war between the RUF(Revolutionary United Front) and the African government. The war started in 1991 and ended in around 2000. This civil war reminded me about the events in Poisonwood Bible. War, death, and greed all remind me of Poisonwood Bible. The circumstances are a bit different and the time periods, on which all the events have occured are also differnt but the same kind of rebellions are occuring. In the Poisonwood Bible, the Kongolese people rebel against the whites in Stanleyville; and in the Blood Diamond the people are rebelling against the government. In the movie, the RUF is a band of people who rebel against the government in a negative way. Their slogan was: "No More Slaves, No More Masters. Power and Wealth to the People." But in the movie, it shows that the RUF took lives of their own people. They mutilated them, enslaved them, raped, and pilaged towns. How could that be good for the people? It led me to wonder how could the people do this to their own?
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