Outrage as Chinese miner desecrates graveyard

A CHINESE coal mining company has allegedly started exploration for coal at a family cemetery in Dinde, Hwange, Matabeleland North province, in a move which has been condemned as disturbing, traumatising and unconstitutional by a local human rights advocacy group.

The Beifa Investment (Pvt) Ltd coal mining project has caused an outcry among Dinde villagers who face possible eviction from their ancestral lands.

Government has defended the project as pro-development, citing unlimited job opportunities for the unemployed youth in Hwange district and the whole wildlife-rich province.

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