On July 1, 2010, Super model Naomi Campbell was summoned by the war crimes trial against ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam near The Hague to give evidence on receiving a "blood diamond". Not appearing at the trial as summoned is punishable by up to 7 years in prison. Despite initially refusing to attend, Campbell was eventually subpoenad and appeared as scheduled as a witness for the prosecution on August 5, 2010.
It's ironical that Cambell who has just been forced to testify against indicted African warlord Charles Taylor once went out with Leonardo De Caprio who played the rough South African smuggler in the the film Blood Diamond!In the United Nations terminology these diamonds are coined as Conflict Diamonds.
