Editing Blood diamond (section)

===Angola===
Reports estimated that as much as 21% of the total diamond production in the 1980s was being sold for illegal and unethical purposes and 19% was specifically ''conflict'' in nature.<ref name=PACWEB>{{cite web |url=http://blooddiamond.pacweb.org/kimberlyprocess/ |title=The Kimberley Controls: How Effective? |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Partnership Africa Canada]] |access-date=8 October 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070116014842/http://blooddiamond.pacweb.org/kimberlyprocess/ |archive-date=16 January 2007}}</ref> By 1999, the illegal diamond trade was estimated by the [[World Diamond Council]] to have been reduced to 4% of the world's diamond production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worlddiamondcouncil.com/estimate.shtml%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7c%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7cwork=worlddiamondcouncil.com%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7cwork=worlddiamondcouncil.com|title=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM|access-date=2015-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219221913/http://www.worlddiamondcouncil.com/estimate.shtml%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7c%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7cwork=worlddiamondcouncil.com%7ctitle=WORLDDIAMONDCOUNCIL.COM%7cwork=worlddiamondcouncil.com|archive-date=2016-12-19|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/index.html |title=Conflict Diamonds - DiamondFacts.org |access-date=2006-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211002030/http://www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/index.html |archive-date=2006-12-11 }}</ref> The World Diamond Council reported that by 2004 this percentage had fallen to approximately 1% and up to today the World Diamond Council refers to this illegal trade to be virtually eliminated, meaning that more than 99% of diamonds being sold have a legal background.<ref name=PACWEB/><ref name="autogenerated1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.venetiamajor.com.au/services/diamonds-gemstones/conflict-diamonds/|title=Conflict Diamonds|work=Venetia Major – Bespoke Jewellery|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410042847/http://www.venetiamajor.com.au/services/diamonds-gemstones/conflict-diamonds/|archive-date=2013-04-10}}</ref>

Despite the UN Resolution, [[UNITA]] was able to continue to sell or trade some diamonds in order to finance its war effort. The UN set out to find how this remaining illicit trade was being conducted and appointed Canadian ambassador [[Robert Fowler (diplomat)|Robert Fowler]] to investigate. In 2000, he produced the [[Fowler Report]], which named those countries, organizations and individuals involved in the trade.  The report is credited with establishing the link between diamonds and third world conflicts,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4kNErbPSzUUC|title=Diamonds and Conflict: Problems and Solutions|author=Arthur V. Levy|pages=5–6|publisher=N ova Publishers|year=2003 |isbn=1-59033-715-8}}</ref> and led directly to [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 1295]], as well as the [[Kimberley Process Certification Scheme]] (KPCS). Still, after the report was published in 2013, smugglers from these African countries were selling blood diamonds through channels less sophisticated, such as social media posts. Rhinestones from Angola, produced by UNITA, were being traded to Cameroon for acquisition of a Cameroonian certificate naturalization to then be sold as legitimate.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chutel |first1=Lynsey |title=Selling blood diamonds is as simple as a Facebook post and a WhatsApp message |url=https://qz.com/africa/1014548/blood-diamonds-from-central-african-republic-are-sold-over-facebook-and-whatsapp/ |website=Quartz Africa |date=26 June 2017 |access-date=27 October 2018}}</ref>