Diamonds are impossible to fake to a moderately trained eye. But it is much harder to detect where a diamond is from. And because diamonds are often found in places run by dictators and despots, there is a business in faking a "blood" diamond's provenance to pretend it was mined elsewhere.

Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

Introduction

For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

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