Angola: Secret Footage Allegedly Shows Diamond Diggers Being Tortured in Angola

Dec 2, 2014 | Global Voices
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A video purportedly showing employees of a private mining security company torturing two Congolese diamond diggers with a machete in Angola has raised the ire of many social media users.

Journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques, who authored the book “Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola,” which reports on the darker side of the diamond industry, released the secretly filmed footage on November 3 on his website MakaAngola.

According to Marques description, the graphic video ”captures K&P Mineira employees hitting the two artisanal diamond miners”, known as “garimpeiros” in Portuguese, with a machete. It is dated September 8, 2014, and was allegedly filmed inside the Luminas diamond-mining concession in Angola's Lunda-Norte province.