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Diamond Geezer bans Zimbabwe gems
01/12/2009 00:00:00
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A LEADING online fine diamond jeweller has slapped an immediate ban on Zimbabwe’s diamonds from Marange, citing human rights violations.

“DiamondGeezer.com board of directors has passed a resolution banning the trade or use of any Marange diamonds,” the UK-registered company said in a statement.

The company cited a report by Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) into claims of a violent military crackdown on illegal miners for its action, which comes just a month after the international diamond trade watchdog, the Kimberley Process, rejected pressure to blacklist Zimbabwe's diamonds.

DiamondGeezer.com said it will effect procedures to ensure that its 'NO BLOOD DIAMONDS HERE' policy is strictly maintained.

RapNet Diamond Trading Network has already banned its members from dealing in gems from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields, claiming “severe” human rights violations in the area, which the Zimbabwe government denies.


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type in john perkins confessions of an economic hitman on you tube and find out how these big businessess take over countries and leave them for dead. let the zimbaz kill each other for their own wealth not foregners. this is the law of the jungle. white people vanotambura in their own countries and come to africa seeking fortunes. these zanu cats are assholes but the white folks are the shit that comes out of these assholes. we are still mentally colonised when we divide our selves as shona and ndebeles the whites feed us this crap and then sit back and watch us kill ourselves e.g hutsis and tutsis killed them selves and the west supplied the weapons. the us bombed and looted iraqs oil and they contracted us companies to rebuild. we must be careful who we trust. lets get educated civil minded people in gvt not ex war veterans or money hungry goons......zimbas are the most learned pple in the world and yet we have the most uneducated pple in gvt....
 
mboje, byo

Comment Date: 1 December 2009

Strikes me as a bit of cheap publicity this! I doubt Zimbabwe has sold them sand ....
 
Joe Bloggs, Cairo, Egypt

Comment Date: 1 December 2009

we never sold diamonds to them, unless through the illegal Lebanese smugglers that were frequently arrested at the airport. to hell Geezer, Europe does not have any diamonds.
 
Zwe, JHB

Comment Date: 1 December 2009

 
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