An Angolan journalist put on trial after exposing killings and torture in the country’s diamond mines has walked free after all defamation charges against him were dropped.  Rafael Marques de Morais reached an out-of-court settlement with a group of generals he had accused of profiting from blood diamonds, accepting that they did not have direct knowledge of the atrocities. But his evidence of the atrocities themselves was not questioned...The British, Mozambican and Angolan directors and partners of ITM Mining, which features in the book, also dropped charges... The generals co-own a private security company whose employees allegedly carried out many of the cases of murder and torture described in the book.