The extraction of sapphires in Madagascar (25 pics)

Posted in PICTURES       4 Aug 2009       8624       8 GALLERY VIEW

A small village in the region Ilaka in Madagascar is the home for a sapphire site and it is the source of half the production of sapphires in the world.
Illegal miners work here in conjunction with large-scale productions. All sapphire businesses here operate almost without any control, in an atmosphere of "Wild West" with its lawlessness and crime.
According to official studies, 19 thousands of children out of 21 who live there are working in sapphire mines.

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superba 15 year s ago
THIS LIFE FOR Sapphires?????? NO THANK!!!!
       
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Maher.Bat 15 year s ago
oh god 36 ... No Mercy !!! n_sad
       
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Tarzan 15 year s ago
and what do they get in return.. misery? they work so hard for all the diamonds and they get nothing in return...
       
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severe_009 15 year s ago
poor people
       
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Etie 15 year s ago
If you have to do it, you might as well do it right.,
       
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Criri 15 year s ago
Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive!,
       
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Bhushan 12 year s ago
December 10, 2011 at 3:35 amcan you please remvoe my two photos (out of three) except that bird photo? feeling ashamed i didn't read the details and posted without thinking for a single second about the theme
       
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Cutamlia 12 year s ago
Sunil,This is an excellent artilce. You're right that there is tremendous potential for the Internet to develop using Indian languages.But I don't think that the potential will be realized any day soon. In India, success, technology, the Internet, and the English language all seem to be strongly linked. Whether this is okay or not is a different story - but that seems to be the reality.
       
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