Armed security guards working for a private company in the diamond region of Lunda Norte in Angola, tortured illegal diamond miners. The incident was captured on video.
Independent news portal Maka Angola, based journalist, human rights defender Rafael Marquez (Rafael Marques), published a 7-minute video on the site the YouTube . Portal calls the actions of security guards "egregious" and "sadistic".
Illegal Diamond miners continue to be a challenge for representatives of the Angolan authorities despite efforts to curb illegal diamond mining.
Marquez has dedicated himself to the protection of human rights in Angola, according to the organization of Global Voice.
Last year, he was sentenced to a 6-month suspended jail sentence for defamation of the Angolan army generals. In his book entitled "Blood Diamonds: Torture and Corruption in Angola" , he said about violation of human rights.
"The year is 2016 and the illegal miners are still being tortured," - said Marquez in an interview to Deutsche Welle.
Most of the torture was carried out by former members of the military actions that are now working in the private security firms, but their actions are rarely made public.
Journalist accused authorities that they do not show enough initiative to prevent such practices.
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The November website of De Beers is likely to be the smallest this year, as last week it brought the company only $ 70 million.
Last month, revenues from the De Beers website amounted to about $ 200 million.
"As we expected, this site turned out to be small, Largely because of the celebration of the Diwali festival, "said David Johnson, head of De Beers' communications division with diamond manufacturers.
"We recognize that there are problems in the industry, and supplies in the supply chain have yet to be reduced." So far, we have been trying to be flexible to meet the needs of sightholders, "he added.
Sightholders could postpone the purchase of 100% of the diamonds of the November site for December, or postpone the delivery in December for a longer period.
The Rapaport portal reports that most of De Beers' long-term customers refused to buy, and some of them did not attend the site, because, according to an unnamed siteholder from Israel, the past site did not become a significant event for them.
The Indian diamond manufacturer based in Belgian Antwerp also noted that many diamond factories in Surat, India, for the holiday season were closed for a month, and not for the usual three weeks. This was due to a decline in market activity in the diamond sector in India.
"Manufacturers stopped buying because they knew that their factories were shut down for a long time, so they processed raw materials," said an unnamed siteholder. "Now there are some concerns that the producers have run out of diamonds for cutting,
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