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The viability of an effort endorsed by the United Nations to halt the trading of the so-called blood diamonds that have fueled conflicts across Africa is on the line this week, and the test case is Zimbabwe.
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People walk past human rights protesters gathered outside Graff diamonds store in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, in a demonstration calling on Graff to pull out of a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of the Kalahari bushmen in...
