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Diamond magnate goes on hunger strike
Midway into his third day on a hunger strike diamond business magnate Martin Rapaport said he’s still feeling good and is full of energy, and appears to be more rearing than ever to take on the entire world diamond industry. Sitting outside the doors of the inter-sessional meeting of the Kimberley Process (KP) in Tel Aviv and subsisting on water alone, Rapaport is calling on the diamond industry to stop using the KP as a fig leaf for human rights abuses and take responsibility for the blood diamonds they are marketing.
Rapaport, who owns many businesses relating to the diamond industry, including the Rapaport Prices List and the RapNet electronic trading network, was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the KP certification scheme, which alerts consumers to the origin of the gems they purchase. Today he claims it is no longer serving its purpose and is actually causing harm by granting legitimacy for diamonds produced by the death and suffering of human beings.Click here to read the full story.
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