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Rights group: Abuse in Zimbabwe diamond fields
Yahoo News ^ | June 26, 2009 | CELEAN JACOBSON

Posted on 06/26/2009 7:15:34 AM PDT by SloopJohnB

JOHANNESBURG – Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe's armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search for the precious gems and beating villagers who get in the way.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: humanrights; mugabe; zimbabwe
Zero just ok'd $73 mil in aid for here...what a waste.
1 posted on 06/26/2009 7:15:35 AM PDT by SloopJohnB
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To: SloopJohnB

Go to any lefty site and call out Mugabe and there will be his defenders will respond. Of course it is a fine way to smoke out the true sociopaths in our society, perhaps Zero’s health care will find an asylum for them.


2 posted on 06/26/2009 7:25:56 AM PDT by junta (I am the son of Yacub, who for one welcomes my new overlord Obama.)
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To: SloopJohnB

How coud this possibly happen in The People’s Paradise of Zimbabwe???


3 posted on 06/26/2009 10:54:03 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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