Deliberate Chaos - Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe
- Publisher:
- Human Rights Watch
- Publication Date:
- 21 June 2010
- Tags:
- Zimbabwe, Mining, Human Rights
In 2008, Zimbabwe’s military launched a bloody crackdown in eastern Zimbabwe after diamonds were discovered in the fields of Marange (otherwise known as Chiadzwa). Police and soldiers, deployed by the government, massacred some 200 people as they seized control of the area. They beat and raped locals, forced them to mine for diamonds, and carried out other human rights abuses. Those responsible have not been held accountable.
