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We mustn't stop,' he screams. They'll be dead in a week. The road is littered with the bones of smugglers. They are signing a death warrant by sticking their necks out on this cursed road.' We've driven ten hours from the South African border in a fog of frayed nerves and off- road diversions to avoid army checkpoints. Posing as black- market diamond traders, we're travelling towards the very hell they are fleeing: Zimbabwe's Wild East. Here, within hiking range of the road we're driving, are the remote diamond fields of Marange, shallow earth mines uncompromisingly controlled by Robert Mugabe's henchmen. The full extent of the diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe became clear following discoveries made in June 2.

They're vast - 4. The finds were made by British prospecting firm African Consolidated Resources (ACR). It had just taken over the rights to explore the area from De Beers, which had failed to renew its mining licences despite having found diamonds before 2. A miner holds up a diamond he's attempting to sell behind the backs of the military and police. There was an outcry in the West. Critics such as Global Witness claimed ACR was making little more than a Faustian pact with Mugabe, the most vilified leader on the African stage.

Maybe it was fateful, then, that in September 2. Mugabe's Zanu- PF government reneged on the deal and seized back the mining rights to the region. When Zimbabwe's hyper- inflation made army pay almost worthless, soldiers rioted in the capital Harare. Watch There`S A Stranger In My House 4Shared more.

Without the patronage of the military, Mugabe faced losing power. Against the ruling of the country's courts, he ceded mining operations to the direct control of the police and army. Amid public confusion over ownership, a diamond rush began around the Marange fields.

Over 1. 0,0. 00 illegal artisanal miners invaded the site and began working small plots. But by January 2.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, warned that the country was losing up to $5. The diamond industry is a licence to print money for the military. With guns, brute force and a terrified population, everything runs like clockwork. The response of both the police and, in particular, the army to bring their interests under control was brutal. Launching Operation No Return in October 2.

Men were strafed by helicopter gunship, and a cordon was set up around the diamond fields. As many as 1. 0,0.

The army then set about doing the unthinkable: recruiting those same villagers under gunpoint and forcing them to dig for diamonds. This is the situation that remains today. The UN is the only international body that can isolate pariah nations dealing in 'blood diamonds' - stones produced in conflict zones - and salve our consciences when we buy jewellery. It's backed by the Kimberley Process, whereby diamond- producing and trading nations commit to strict self- regulation to keep blood diamonds out of the world's supply. As a Kimberley Process review panel prepares to rule on Zimbabwe's future as an exporter of gems, a Live magazine investigation has uncovered shocking first- hand evidence of the violent enslavement of alluvial miners in the eastern badlands of the former British colony.

These men, women and children are being forced at the barrel of a gun by soldiers to dig out tiny diamonds from the earth with their bare hands, to pay the troops' wages and thereby keep Mugabe in power. A miner in Zimbabwe tunnels into the ground. Our report, which we're submitting to the review panel, comes just weeks after the Zimbabwean government assured the world its diamonds were ethical.

The situation as it stands makes a mockery of the Kimberley Process. The young men stand at the roadside shaking. The youngest, weeping with fear, shouts and pleads with his captors.

His mouth is foaming. Heknows that this is just the beginning of his torment. Handcuffed together and forced to lean against a baobab tree, their trousers at their ankles, blood streams down their buttocks - a common sight in war zones: a humiliation and a warning to others. The soldiers sit nearby smoking cigarettes, waiting for the truck to come so they can carry on their torturing in private.

Everyone on this road is suspected of being a diamond smuggler. The road to Mutare has become one of the most militarised in all Africa. Army checkpoints scar the highway at 5. Everywhere is the detritus of soldiers: cigarettes, moonshine bottles and bullet casings. Scorched earth from cooking fires stains the lay- bys.

At regular intervals, women stand behind pulled- over buses, their hands stretched in the air as their private parts are invaded and frisked by scruffy soldiers and radicalised youngsters from the Zanu- PF's youth training centres. The youngest, weeping with. His mouth is foaming. He. knows that this is just the beginning of his torment. According to a 2.

Human Rights Watch report, army brigades are now being rotated in the Marange region to satisfy senior ranking officers from different divisions so that more soldiers can profit from the diamond trade. The same report also states that villagers from the area, some of them children, are being forced to work in mines controlled by military syndicates.

At times you can almost make out the word ' diamonds' in slow- motion on their lips as the young soldiers ruthlessly tug at bra straps, sexually abusing, humiliating and tormenting their subjects. The motivation for the police and military to stop the flow of smuggling is simple and calculating: diamonds are their domain. We are posing as diamond buyers from Israel, and are on the road just south of Mutare, the provincial capital on the Mozambique border. At each checkpoint the car is painstakingly searched. The soldiers will then pull us aside and produce small gritty slivers of diamond from hidden belt pockets in their military fatigues. The going rate for poor stones is $3. Watch The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Full Movie. In the West, the price would be 2.

Diamond miners in the Marange fields scrape through dirt trying to find stones. The closer we get to the mining fields the purer the stones become and the more our translator warns us our lives are in danger. Even with our cover as diamond dealers we are out on a limb here.

At each checkpoint the soldiers tell us that most of the dealers are black - Nigerians. We decide the only safe way for us into the diamond fields is to park ten miles away and hike into the bush at 4am. As we set off, in the darkness, everyone is terrified.

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