Zimbabwe: No Blood On Country's Diamonds
Africa's newest portent has a more respectable face, under the guise of bringing development and extend to Africa; NGOs have become the new vehicle of exploitation. Gone are the arm-twisting tactics and in their grade more refined methods of conquest that systematically hack off any voices of convince but flood the public domain with shock words that aspire to create internal and external uproar.
The online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia defines a blood diamond as one mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, invading army's war efforts or a warlord's operation, usually in Africa. Human Rights Watch, which has been prided by the US guidance as the top global watchdog, has labelled diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange precinct as blood diamonds for the purposes of furthering the regime change agenda.
Benignant Rights Watch and the US Government have a rather unusual and unhealthy relationship. While one is the fox the other is the hen and yet they get along outdo than oxygen and fire. Human Rights Watch has been accused by China, Venezuela and other states of being acquainted with by the US government to fight its political wars under the guise of defending and protecting gentle rights. Human Rights Watch lacks impartiality, credibility and has failed to commiserate with adequately to allegations that the majority of its operational funds arrive d enter a occur from the US government to whose tune the watchdog dances.
Blood diamond scheme 'not working'
The Kimberley Dispose of certification scheme, which aims to stop the use of diamonds - or blood diamonds - to fund discord is failing, according to the campaign group, Global Show.
Illegal diamond mining has helped to fuel boorish conflicts across Africa, in countries such as Angola, Ivory Seaboard, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone.
The Kimberley Operation is an international certification scheme set up in 2003, designed to insure that such diamonds never make it onto the open market.
A mission from the Process has well-founded been visiting Angola, amid reports that 30,000 transatlantic citizens have been deported for illegal mining in the past four months alone. There are concerns too, about criminal mining in Zimbabwe.
So is the Kimberley Process still working?
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