Marange diamond fields

The third investigation by PAC into illicit activity in Zimbabwe’s diamond sector focuses on ongoing trade irregularities, the lack of transparency of diamond revenues, and examines the ways Zanu PF officials and the global diamond industry…
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The discovery of diamonds in June 2006 by villagers in the Marange area in rural Chiadzwa, 90km southwest of Mutare, has been a mixed blessing for Zimbabwe.
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In 2008 the Zimbabwean army took control of the Marange diamond fields using troops and helicopter gunships, killing and wounding many small scale miners in the process. Since then diamond mining concessions have been allocated to several…
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The Kimberley Process (KP) has thrown away its main point of leverage over the Zimbabwean government by allowing it to export diamonds from the controversial Marange region without first fulfilling previous commitments to reform its diamond…
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Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed miners.
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A BBC Panorama documentary broadcast Monday evening firmly put the spotlight on abuses in the Marange diamond fields. According to the 30 minute report Zimbabwe's military and police are running secret torture camps in the diamond mining…
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