As I write in Foreign Policy's January/February issue, over 90 percent of the world's rough diamonds -- legal and otherwise -- are sent on a secret journey to the city of Surat, India. Here, they are polished, brokered, and laundered before going back to every diamond-buying country in the world.
The Diamond Capital of the World
Photographs from Surat, India -- where blood diamonds get cleaned before they end up on your finger.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013
As I write in Foreign Policy's January/February issue, over 90 percent of the world's rough diamonds -- legal and otherwise -- are sent on a secret journey to the city of Surat, India. Here, they are polished, brokered, and laundered before going back to every diamond-buying country in the world.
Jason Miklian is a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Sangeeta Rane contributed reporting.
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