[Human Rights Watch]...this week warned that the Kimberley Process was in danger of becoming irrelevant following its failure to ban diamonds mined from Marange in eastern Zimbabwe...HRW said Zimbabwe’s diamonds were being mined under conditions of serious human rights abuses, with endemic smuggling and rampant corruption. The conditions breached KPCS standards which required members to ensure that diamonds were lawfully mined, documented and exported, said [Tiseke Kasambala, HRW’s senior researcher for Africa division]...“Despite Zimbabwean claims that the army was withdrawing, for the most part, the diamond fields remain under firm military control, with smuggling, abuses, and corruption unchecked,” said Kasambala. “Zimbabwe has not taken any steps either to investigate or to hold to account members of the army and police responsible for abuses in the diamond fields.