Diamonds in the rough
Subtitle: human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe
By: Human Rights Watch
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9781564325051
Other titles: Human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe
Description: This 62-page report documents how, following the discovery of diamonds in Marange in June 2006, the police and army have used brutal force to control access to the diamond fields and to take over unlicensed diamond mining and trading. Some income from the fields has been funneled to high-level party members of ZANU-PF, which is now part of a power-sharing government that urgently needs revenue as the country faces a dire economic crisis.  In February 2009, Human Rights Watch researchers conducted more than 100 one-on-one interviews with witnesses, local miners, police officers, soldiers, local community leaders, victims and relatives, medical staff, human rights lawyers, and activists in Harare, Mutare, and Marange district in eastern Zimbabwe.--Publisher description.
Notes: "June 2009"--P. following t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via the Internet on the Human Rights Watch web site.