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    The KPCS is under strong pressure to act against Zimbabwe. "Hundreds of miners have been killed by their own government ... How can that country still be part of the Kimberley Process? What's the point of having a stick if the stick is never used? Zimbabwe should be suspended." The Namibia meeting which ends today has agreed to send an inspection team to the troubled southern African nation next week but it's unlikely they will be given serious access to the Marange area where the killings occurred. Full Article at The Independent
    Hundreds of miners have been killed by their own government ... How can that country still be part of the Kimberley Process? What's the point of having a stick if the stick is never used? Zimbabwe should be suspended.
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
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Exclusive: The return of blood diamonds
  1. Diamond experts estimate that conflict diamonds now represent a fraction of one per cent of the international trade in diamonds, compared to estimates of up to 15 per cent in the 1990s. That has been the Kimberley Process's most remarkable contribution to a peaceful world.
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  2. ensure that diamond purchases were not funding violence
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  3. They are blood diamonds, they have blood all over them.
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  4. The diamond trade would go back to its criminal past and rebel armies would have no problem finding buyers for their blood diamonds. The potential for diamonds fuelling conflict would be back
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  5. It isn't regulating the rough diamond trade ... It is in danger of becoming irrelevant and it's letting all manner of crooks off the hook.
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  6. The Kimberley Process is always the last to wake up and smell the coffee
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago
  7. If it was working I would be there in Windhoek arguing with them or celebrating with them... but governments want to pretend that it is working.
    SOURCE: The Independent 5 months ago

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