Powerful military and political elites and security forces have controlled and secretly exploited Zimbabwe’s once promising diamond sector, while concealing the scale of the loss to its people, a new report from Global Witness reveals. ‘An Inside Job’ examines five of the major mining companies that recently operated in the Marange diamond region. The report shows how companies have concealed their finances and shielded their operations from public scrutiny, hiding significant stakes in these companies held by the feared Central Intelligence Agency, the Zimbabwean military and the government itself. This raises concerns that diamond money is secretly financing institutions responsible for oppressing the Zimbabwean people. Alongside the report Global Witness has released a never before shared map, finally revealing the details of company concessions in Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields. It has also produced a short film featuring members of local communities describing the impacts of Marange diamonds on their lives...