Whats your story. Ready he wasnt, i was women, especially victims of violence in a lapse of take part and send us your story. We are trying always to understand this new culture. So you are not a visitor, not the guests. You want to become a citizen in full migrants, your platform for reliable information. Oh rubys eye among the most sought after gemstones in the worlds with resources becoming scars, prices have been rising for years one. This is really expensive. Material came thousands of dollars, ran more than half now come from northern was em. Beek origin plagued by poverty and violence disc. Lydia laws middle people suffer using this model devoted can the lucrative ruby business change that the road leading to the Worlds Largest ruby. Mine runs through a crisis, so this is capital god o province. One of the poorest pod. So from was um beak. Thousands of people are trying to get a ride, so they can flee. Because in recent weeks, islamists attacked several villages, beheading people, and setting fire to their homes, the ruby minus, also on heightened alerts. The attacks are getting closer and the violence is only one of the problems facing the security. Little voice is often good. This is are just, i mean the problem in the morning security chief frank prince and his team plan the day a heads up over the driver. Meanwhile, a few 100 meters away and novice straggle is beginning every day. Up to 200 people legally enter the open cast mine hoping to share in the regents mineral wealth using simple tools, they dig terminals up to 15 meters deep. The mine uses thrown pilots to track the illegal mining. Coordinating with the security styles. I teach, ive scheduled a she go log when he kind of printed okay, here brainstorm it offers you offers your doctors your copier. So ive yet to russia go this time only one of the men this caught i was like, oh my god, oh no, no, im not lucy. There feel no didnt matter. Maliah, are you going to cry . Youre like a child. Im a little bit about the boys. Yeah. The young man knows what awaits him. Hell go straight to jail and could face the sentence of up to 5 years. This isnt the 1st time hes been caught. His already spends 2 years in prison with. Ringback no one please, or till i have a 4 year old daughter happen to wish i didnt go with if you feel saudi for these guys because if you look at the, if you look at the india they move in. I mean yes. These are mine. Yes. Yes. We can only accommodate so many people in terms of employment. You cant give employment to everyone just in this facility. So our mind, were looking at about id 1000, displaced people for a month to be us up to on july. What a, what do that people do . For an income they, they get involved in this most of the mine work is done using machines every day excavators remove 3000 tons of or the, or runs along conveyor belts to be washed and crushed. Only at the end of the process are the parishs rubies, visible to a few human sources walking under strict conditions. Every employee is thoroughly searched when leaving the mind. 1400 people walk here one and 3 of them in the security t. O. We want to find the family of the man who was arrested for a legal binding in the village in the middle of the minor concession. We meet his sister. We asked if she knows what happened to the brother with i see on those. So he called me to say they take him into custody. I came back, i havent heard from him since they left for you. I had enough about the how do i feel . And if i did my, what can i say, wasnt that i dont even have money for the bus to go visit him buddy, let alone to help him about bugging you know, with just next door a group of young men has given us at 1st in the mood is tell, its clear what most of them do for living, but they still want to talk to us. They blame the mind for their situation. They say that none of them got a job there. Whether we were huh. I was suffering here, but i made, i met no walk with it, but id be shot. I have no choice but to search for ruby barbara and its not lucrative either. So i just came back from digging 10 shots and i found nothing to draw b o w that they still hunters down and arrest us even when we dont have any language that anthony begati does offer them behind. In recent years, the mine has been accused of severe human rights violations, security forces, abusing those doing illegal mining and sometimes varying them alive. Now the administrators say they want to do things differently. Walking more closely with the people and operating with more transparency complained boxes have been set up with the Company Shows off its social projects, farms, mo, by Health Clinics and schools. But above all, it pace, plenty of texas says the mind manager, claudius non good nima, upwards of 25 percent of our gross revenues and have been to the good paid to the government in terms ofa production, texas. Andrew artis and time that thats a significant amount of money and to we do not know at this point at jims full color jimson company anyway in their ward that is contributed back to their wants to governments such amount of money as a percentage of their growth every year, and this is where the rubies act turned into profit. Ty, lets, the country is one of the most important gemstone trading. Sanchez, the Worlds Largest ruby auction takes place regularly in the capital bank cock. This time, 122 kilograms of rubies are being auctioned. More than 600000 carrots. Its the yield from the last 6 months, all from a single mine in mozambique to you can certainly see the difference in time. The more read the james times i could almost say like her, i a traffic signs stop sign raid. Very vivid, very bright, transparent would be the based on color ruby as they get darker wall, still beautiful. They do become less valuable. Adrian bangs has worked in the gemstone industry for more than 20 years. For half a year, the South African travels the world as sales direct off the company jim fields. Ruby prices have risen sharply in recent years, and banks hopes the trend will continue by think to morrow. When auction tom comes. This will be one of the my sort off to parcels. This is really expensive material ah, tens of thousands of dollars per gram. After a thorough inspection, customers bits on various items. Since the pandemic, the auction has been held on like 80 percent of bidders come from within thailand, the local ruby reserves saw as good as exhausted. But the industry still has decades of experience in catching and polishing the gems. In the past, we have to go to decline. We have to go to other countries to fight demetria advice until equal to africa today. Local i know weve been is were gonna end up buying really neat to in the quality my media auction. We tend to choose what to be one, quantity the next day, the inspection is over. Its crunch time. This is life. And this is gonna close at 2 oclock bangkok time, which is in 17 minutes time. Then if ron will be aware of what the total revenue is and full, the revenue from the auction, every single dollar gets re petra t. I much, pres ruby mining in mozambique. And the government has full transparency on the amount and the proceeds from the ocean. And the relevant taxes are being paid on on that. Welcome to all of you. And every good wish for the 3 options thatll be closing today. The ocean is now just closed. The end of the auction is monitored by government officials and them was m b tax authorities. So this like theres a transparency that ran the gemstone mining industry. Were not allowed to film the announcement of individual sales, but overall and new record has been sets. The auction brings in almost 100000000. 00. Its a windfall for the company and state coffers, but how much of that will reach the people was a Big Government is not known for transparency or good governance. According to the constitution, 2. 75 percent of the tax revenues must flow back into the region. But theres little sign of it back in the provincial capital at government representative shows as the list of projects and asks for patience. Applebees and the boys vainly be made. There is poverty after independence on leave. Countries dont become rich and 50 years married, but there are steps being taken by some boss was catholic. If in the past this district wasnt like it is today in fame, was that we didnt have the Health Facilities that we have now boys moving in of in the villages around them. I am there are close to release for the School Children maintenance. Bam, there is growth happening. I should do that for other fellow bella, but i dont believe any one expects us to become rich over night with all these resources. Keep on board with your goose normal domain. The products again was re good. The mind manager argues that the people will benefit from the mine in the long term, but he is also surprisingly honest and self critical about the situation. When can understand why they are not happy that you know, if you look at all the, the did it in the official lives schools, education infrastructure in a hell in the like at the moment i think um, what tom, no, we are doing collectively is private organizations is the government whos to really it broke in the ocean in here and was unbecoming poverty. And the lack of prospects up lane to see some who dont try to get their hands on. Rubies rely on catching mice to feed their families. And there is not much time left for the regional tourist to get some benefit from the gemstone. 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