Zim: blood diamonds and spineless Morgan

BY ALEX MATTHEWS
Earlier this month it was announced that Mugabe’s Kimberley Process cronies have decided to give him until June to withdraw the soldiers in the Marange diamond fields. The army runs smuggling operations and use forced labour in mines whose profits benefit Zanu-PF.
Human Rights Watch exposed the horrors of Marange in June. A task [...]

By The Soapbox | 24 Nov 09 | Posted in Politics & Society | Comments (0)

Massacres, forced labour haunt Zimbabwe diamond fields

BY ALEX MATTHEWS
Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe’s eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
This is according to a comprehensive report released last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based rights NGO, which interviewed over 100 people in the region in February 2009.
Mining [...]

By The Soapbox | 11 Jul 09 | Posted in Politics & Society | Comments (1)

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