Wednesday, March 18, 2009

'Blood diamonds' team starts Zim probe

An international group is in Zimbabwe to investigate allegations of mass murder by government soldiers in a diamond field in the east of the country, state media reported on Wednesday.

The mission from the Kimberley Process (KP), the United Nations-founded body to monitor the trade in so-called "blood diamonds" arrived on a fact-finding mission on Monday and were due on Tuesday to visit the notorious Chiadzwa diamond field about 80km south of the eastern city of Mutare, the government-controlled daily Herald said.

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