"There are lots of children away," the headmistress at the preschool says. "We don't know why." Chickenpox? That was last month. The owner of a Montessori preschool across town has more of an idea. "It's the diamond dealers," she told C. "They're in hiding. Lots of kids are absent now. And the kids that are left are being picked up by different people." Obviously they've been left with friends or relatives until the dust has died down and the dealers judge it safe to return.
* Operation Hakudzokwi (No Return) = brutal army/police clampdown on gwejas (dealers) and diggers in Chiadzwa diamond fields and nearby city of Mutare. "After this operation, no gweja will think of going to Chiadzwa again," official close to Hakudzokwi told local Manica Post newspaper
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