Riiko Sakkinen | Objects | Super Size Happy Meal Series
Super Size Happy Meal SeriesBlood Diamonds
October 2010, Cervera de los Montes / Helsinki
32 x 20 x 20 cm
Silk screen print on cardboard
i Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts, or a warlord's activity, usually in Africa where around two-thirds of the world's diamonds are produced.

Charles Taylor was a warlord and president in Liberia.

Naomi Campbell is an English model. Charles Taylor gave her a large, uncut blood diamond while they were overnight guests of a Nelson Mandela charity function in South Africa, in 1997.
Tags: Happy Meal, McDonald's, blood diamond, warlord, Naomi Campbell, Charles Taylor
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