Exporting Diamonds of Africa Essay

Introduction

Blood diamonds or rubies are the main source of revenue, supportive tool of despotic rulers of Africa and dictatorial rulers of Burma. Approximately 90% of world‘s exporting diamonds and gemstones is organized by the tyrannical regime of Myanmar and military rulers have undertaken about $750 million dollars, having gigantic profiteering shares in world s’ highest quality gemstones marketplace since 1964.

Main body

The worldwide indignation against the repressive attitude of the generals of Myanmar has encouraged the EU to disallow the trading of Myanmar s’ gemstones, one of the major exporter of diamonds in the world. US government is also under pressure to tighten a loophole on the current US sanctions which let the trading of precious stones of Burma. But the trading of Myanmar‘s gems has been continuing in its neighboring country, Thailand which has direct business deals with military junta of Burma.

The citizens of Burma have been exploiting under the pressure of despotic rulers who are involved in sales of precious gems to support their dictatorial government. As the military rulers never feel any hesitation to shoot the protestors or uprising movement of the Buddhist monks who protest against repression and exploitation of Burmese dictatorship. Myanmar’s generals have entire control over the exporting of diamonds since 1964 and they have been earning massive amount of income about $750 million. A large number of precious diamonds and gemstones are smuggled over the border into china and Thailand.

China, Thailand, Canada, France, the U.S.A, and Italy are the main bidders of blood diamonds of Burma and they are importing the largest part of gemstones of Myanmar to their countries. Though many times some trade sanctions are imposed upon Myanmar gemstones due to its uprising movement of public against their rulers ‘s repressive attitude but there is no use of such restrictions as the exporters of gemstones in Myanmar are running their business boastfully in spite of all such international trade ban.

The defense ministry or military officers rule over Burma s’ gemstone trade dominantly and all major countries including china, India, Thailand, Singapore, America, Canada and France are scooping up Burmese diamond exportation. The government’s Myanmar Gem Enterprise, Burmese Export Company has been developing its exporting business of gemstones with the ratio of 45% every year. The gem auctions are arranged by the military regime twice a year since 1964, having official hold on gem trade by Myanmar government.

Blood Diamonds is a famous movie, depicting the repression, exploitation and brutal attitude of despotic rulers upon their common laymen by snatching away their precious asset without the proper payment to them. This film is a true representation of tyranny and greediness of dictatorial regime of developing countries where the rulers are exploiting the public by having entire hold over the precious asset of the country.

The perfect solution of deterring such brutal and tyranic attitude of Burmese government is to convince the international marketers not to buy Burmese gems which support the fund-raising campaigns to sustain military regime in the country. There should be some uprising protests with this slogans in international marketplace of gemstons, “The rubies from Burma are blood rubies. They are red with the blood of young people” and there is no need to support the military regime by buying Burmese gems as it is considers as human rights abuses.” (Woodsome, 2007)

Reference

Woodsome, Kate (2007) Boycott of Burma’s ‘Blood Rubies’ Urged by Rights Advocates. Web.