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Article

1 Jun 2010

Author:
Partnership Africa Canada

[PDF] Partnership Africa Canada report: Diamonds and Clubs - The Militarized Control of Diamonds and Power in Zimbabwe

The story of Zimbabwe’s contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation and unfathomable greed; and, of course, heart-wrenching cases of government-sponsored repression and human rights violations...This report makes several...contentions...[One] is that Zimbabwe’s diamonds are “blood diamonds”...By not explicitly acknowledging [the] threats to Zimbabwe’s political stability, the ability of the KP and key foreign actors to appropriately respond to this crisis is severely compromised. [Refers to African Consolidated Resources, Bubye Minerals, Core Mining and Mineral Resources, Canadile (part of Grandwell), Grandwell (part of New Reclamations), Marange Resources (part of Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation), Mbada Diamonds (joint venture Reclam Group & Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp.), Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, New Reclamations Group, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation]