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Source: Amnesty International - 22 October 2002

Making a killing : The diamond trade in government-controlled DRC
Q.: Amnesty International: 'What do you do when someone is shot dead in
your diamond concessions?'
A.: Diamond company official: 'Nothing.' (Amnesty International
interview with an official from the DRC's main diamond-mining company,
MIBA, in October 2001)

 "There is effectively a state of anarchy reigning in the
diamond fields of Mbuji-Mayi," the organization said, as it launched
a new report, entitled <Democratic Republic of Congo: Making a
Killing>, about the diamond industry in government-controlled DRC.
"Unarmed civilians, including children, are regularly being killed
in cold blood, but no-one is ever brought to justice for these killings
and nothing is being done to end the killings."

This report focuses on the abuses associated with the exploitation of one
particular natural resource in one specific place - the diamonds of
Mbuji-Mayi.
But the situation described there is in many ways characteristic of the
situation which prevails across the DRC. Throughout the country, state
institutions such as the judiciary are failing to discharge their duties
adequately; a lack of transparency and accountability is promoting
institutionalised corruption and mismanagement of state resources at the
expense of social and economic development; and very high levels of human
rights violations, often connected with the exploitation of natural
resources or conflicts over the control of those resources, are being
committed with more or less complete impunity. 

This report can be found and dowloaded at this address:
<http://www.amnesty.org/>

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