Blood Diamonds Stain Swiss

The Associated Press is reporting that the conflict diamond trade out of the Congo is alive and well. A long-term scandal over the smuggling of African diamonds prompted an international effort, called the Kimberley process, to get a handle on the no-holds-barred diamond trading system, which allows crooks and creeps of all kinds to finance their doings with contraband gems. A leaked report from a Kimberley commission shows that blood diamonds are moving through the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, aided by hugely undervalued rates.

Why can't we solve this sort of problem with geological methods instead of human mechanisms? Because they don't work.