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5 Mar 2012

Author:
South Africa Press Agency (SAPA)

Zim’s illicit gem trade thriving underground [Zimbabwe]

...“Abuses are still very common and we receive regular reports from CCDT local human rights monitors,” said [Melanie] Chiponda [of the Chiadzwa Community Development Trust (CCDT)]. She cited beatings by guards at the Chinese-joint venture Anjin Investment...and a [South African] company contracted to Mbada Diamonds [joint venture Zimbabwe Mineral Development Corporation, New Reclamation Group] that “still uses dogs to chase away job-seekers”...[response by Anhui Foreign Economic Construction below. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre also invited New Reclamation Group to respond but it did not do so.]

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