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Page last updated at 13:17 GMT, Monday, 2 November 2009

Zimbabwe diamond sales ban urged

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Zimbabwe is facing calls to be suspended from the the international diamond trade, following allegations of brutality by its soldiers.

Rights groups are lobbying members of the Kimberly Process, the body which regulates the trade in rough diamonds, to halt exports from Zimbabwe.

Activists say soldiers killed about 200 people at a diamond field. The government denies the claims.

Karen Allen reports.

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