Operation Hakudzokwi under the overall command of General Constantino Chiwenga continued every day for the next three weeks until November 16, 2008. Military helicopters would fire teargas and live ammunition from the air to support soldiers shooting at miners on the ground. The helicopters used in the operation were temporarily based in Mutare at 3 Brigade army base.
A Chiadzwa villager told Human Rights Watch: "On November 8, I discovered 22 decomposing bodies near Chiadzwa Dam. I reported the matter to my village headman. None of the dead were from my village. On the following day, we saw a group of soldiers in army uniform directing some miners using bulldozers to dig a mass grave. All the bodies were buried in that grave on 9 November."
Diamonds in the Rough—Human Rights Abuses in the Marange Diamond Fields of Zimbabwe.He wanted to catch Tsvangson alive . Tsvangson ran into Dutch embassy for dear life. But still they caught him later.
