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Ian Smillie- Conflict diamond expert and former executive director of CUSO-VSO- Podcast #244

Cuso International

Feb 13 2011



Ian Smillie, conflict diamond expert and former executive director of CUSO-VSO, talks to us about the bloody global diamond trade and how his interest in this issue began with his experience as a CUSO volunteer in Sierra Leone in 1967.

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