Enos Chikwere spills nine uncut diamonds from a bag at Restaurante Piscina in the town of Vila de Manica in Mozambique near the Zimbabwe border. He says the stones are worth $75,000 and that he bought them from Zimbabwean soldiers. The diamonds come from a mining concession the government seized in 2006 from a private company. The army has used forced labor, human-rights groups say, to mine the gems. The stones are sold illicitly via smuggling. Chikwere is part of a chain that stretches back to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF), the party of President Robert Mugabe, which has won four violent and disputed elections since 2000.
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