Charles Taylor, a former president of Liberia currently facing war crimes charges at a special court in The Hague, is alleged to have used diamonds to fund rebels in Sierra Leone’s civil war. The case against Taylor represents only one of several examples in which diamonds have facilitated widespread human rights violations.
利比里亚前总统查理·泰勒用钻石来资助塞拉利昂内战中的反对派，并因此在海牙特别法庭受到战争罪指控。但此案只不过是利用钻石侵犯人权的众多案件之一罢了。