Blood Diamond (2006)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide. bootlegger, journalist, smuggling (contraband), loss of loved one, africa, rwandan genocide, rebel, journalism, slavery, fisherman, mercenary, diamond mine, sierra leone, special unit, oppression, 1990s, private military company, set in africa