Mugabe depends on diamonds for power

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 15:00 in Physics & Chemistry

HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 3 (UPI) -- Zimbabwe's leader, independence hero Robert Mugabe, is struggling to cling to power even though he has driven his once-prosperous country to bankruptcy, and the way he's doing it is selling diamonds many see as mined at gunpoint.

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