3. Cast
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer
• Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy
• Jennifer Connelly as Maddy Bowen
• Kagiso Kuypers as Dia Vandy
• Arnold Vosloo as Colonel Coetzee
• Antony Coleman as Cordell Brown
• Benu Mabhena as Jassie Vandy
• Anointing Lukola as N'Yanda Vandy
• David Harewood as Captain Poison
• Basil Wallace as Benjamin Kapanay
• Jimi Mistry as Nabil
• Michael Sheen as Rupert Simmons
• Marius Weyers as Rudolf van de Kaap
• Stephen Collins as Ambassador Walker
• Ntare Mwine as M'Ed
• Ato Essandoh as Captain "Rambo"
• Gaurav Chopra as French journalist
4. plot
• Blood Diamond, a movie directed by Edward Zwick, which focuses on
the bad impacts of the local African people over the dispute between
the Government and the rebels.
• This movie follows the changing life of a common African man after
getting the diamond.
• The movie also tries to depict the social affliction of child soldiers
5. Story Line
• Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone,
Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer - an ex mercenary from
Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy - a Mende fisherman.
• Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until
their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink
diamond that can transform their lives.
• While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken
from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and
hidden the extraordinary rough stone.
• With the help of Maddy Bowen, an American journalist whose idealism is
tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on
a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family
and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
6. Human Right’s Issue
• Genocide
• Child soldiers
• Forced Labor
• The Right To Safety
• Torture
10. Conclusions
• Blood Diamond is a dramatization of one of the world’s worst human
rights tragedies of the twenty-first century--the use of forced labour
by rebels to extract diamonds in Sierra Leone in exchange for
weapons.
• Despite the Kimberly Process, which requires certification that
diamond sales have not been used to finance armed rebels, business
tycoons continue to exploit poor nations and their people.
• Every human being is entitled to his inalienable, or absolute, rights.
No government, situation, or people can take the rights from fellow
men.
11. Conclusions … continue
• The lack of the government, presence of the RUF, or rebel groups, and
even the intrusion of organizations such as UNICEF take away the
citizens rights.
• The rebels that attack citizens also greatly violate the right to
personal security.
• Some children are under the age of 10 when they are forced to serve.
• Children who are poor, displaced from their families, have limited
access to education, or live in a combat zone are more likely to be
forcibly recruited.