Although representatives from the Kimberley Process have not been to Zimbabwe

A Kimberley Process group recently visited Zimbabwe for inspection purposes, seeking, inter alia, to determine whether there had been massacres in Marange during a raid last year by security forces on participants in illegal diamond mining.

Although representatives from the Kimberley Process have not been to Zimbabwe for the first time to investigate the circumstances of this diamond battles, the most recent visit was followed by a concerted effort by some non-governmental organizations such as Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) to halt the participation of this South African Country in the Kimberley Process, an organization created to stop the flow of conflict diamonds - raw diamonds used by the rebel movements for the financial nancing wars against legitimate governments.

It seems that the call to suspend Zimbabwe's participation in the Kimberley Process is caused not by the flourishing illegal mining of diamonds and the smuggling of precious stones by the glitzers into countries such as South Africa, after which they are sold as legal stones.

"The government of Zimbabwe, which is not alien to violence, killed dozens of miners engaged in artisanal crafts in alluvial deposits of diamonds, in order to clear these areas of the country from them. There was no response to urgent requests for action by non-governmental organizations and industry observers in the Kimberley Process, supported by several governments and the European Union. In November 2008, the Zimbabwe Armed Forces used force to purge the Chiadzwa deposit (in Marange) from diamond miners. The media reported that more than 50 people were shot and killed, many of them being shot from helicopters. This action was condemned by the organization Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights) and many others, "PAC said.

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