Democratic Republic of Congo: Making a killing: The diamond trade in government-controlled DRC.

Index Number: AFR 62/017/2002
Date Published: 21 October 2002
Categories: Africa, Democratic Republic Of Congo

This report details the impunity with which extrajudicial executions and intentional woundings in the MIBA diamond concessions are carried out, and how, to Amnesty International's knowledge, not a single state agent has ever been prosecuted for the unlawful killing of a suspected illegal miner in Mbuji-Mayi.