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"en.20100708.21.4-407"2
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"Mr President, in the 30 years since Mugabe took power, Zimbabwe has changed from the breadbasket to the begging bowl of southern Africa. The past decade in Zimbabwe has been characterised by the systematic and deliberate impoverishment of most of Zimbabwe’s 12 million people. However, some of Mugabe’s cronies, particularly the military chiefs, have become exceedingly rich through control of expropriated farmland and mineral resources.
Farai Maguwu has bravely sought to expose extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses by the army, which controls many of Zimbabwe’s diamond mines. Inevitably the wealth from these mines is now bankrolling Mugabe’s henchmen. Zimbabwe should therefore be refused readmission to the Kimberley Process. The EU should also seek to tighten and extend targeted sanctions against those in Zimbabwe who have enriched themselves by trading in the so-called blood diamonds. Of course Farai Maguwu, who was exercising his fundamental right to free speech, should be released from detention immediately."@en1
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