One of the only ways that Magabe has been able to stay in power for so long was by the money made, and claimed by the army (one way or another) from the Marange Diamond fields, which shamefully was ratified by the Kimberley Process (designed to stop the illicit use of funds from Diamond sales).
If interested in the disgusting story, making a mockery of "global controls and processes", read the following links
https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/06/...rights-abuses-marange-diamond-fields-zimbabwe
https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/04/zimbabwe-diamond-abuses-show-need-reforms
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/ar...cess-calls-diamond-trade-be-held-accountable/
http://www.whiteband.org/es/reading...bwe-not-doing-enough-stop-diamond-miners-abus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/05/blood-diamonds-kimberley-process
good riddance...but it took 10 years plus too long
End of Mugabe?, page-28
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