Blood Diamond

Diamond had caused slavery and war in South Africa. The civilians were dragged to work as forced labor only to give their home treasures to foreigners, to white people. They suffered and died while the white people prospered and wealthy. During that time, an African named Solomon Vandy was cruelly separated from his family because of the rebels called RUF that come to his village. He was separated from his family when the RUF caught him and forced him to work as a slave in a diamond mine. Fortunately, Solomon was succeed to hide a very big diamond he found at that mine and escaped from the mine but did not have a chance to bring the diamond with him. Bad for him, the commandant of the RUF retaliated him by kidnapping his son. He started his journey by trying to look for his family. Along his journey, he was then accompanied by Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler and Maddy, an American journalist. They were going through different goals which were related to one another. Solomon was looking for his son, Archer was looking for the diamond Solomon hid, and Maddy was looking for facts happened behind the war. While do the journey as a team, they learned a lot of things about life, friendship, love and sacrificing. After facing a lot of obstacles along the journey, they were finally succeeded in finding Solomon’s family and the diamond. Unfortunately, the victory costs Archer’s life when he was shot while struggling for the diamond. Solomon did not waste the death of his friend, he and Maddy worked together and told the world the true story that beyond the prosperity of Von de Cop –a diamond company– were suffering and death of Africans.