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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