Our mortuary has a maximum capacity of 38 bodies only, so it was extremely overcrowded. We were forced to pile the bodies on the floor. From our hospital patients, five people died due to cholera, bringing the total number of bodies in the mortuary to 83. We could not take in any more bodies, so we started turning away military trucks that brought in dead bodies. On one occasion we turned away a military truck with several bodies. The soldiers told us they would take the bodies to mortuaries in Harare and Chitungwiza.96 The 83 bodies were later buried in two mass graves at Dangamvura Cemetery in Mutare on December 19, 2008.97 On February 19, Human Rights Watch researchers visited Mutare’s Dangamvura Cemetery with witnesses who had participated in burying the bodies from Marange. They were shown the two mass graves in which the 83 bodies were allegedly buried. A local miner who witnessed Operation Hakudzokwi told Human Rights Watch: On November 3, 2008, we aborted a trip to the diamond fields after a villager warned us that soldiers were shooting and killing people there. As we tried to hike back to Mutare together with many other people, an army truck pulled up where we stood. Without warning, the five soldiers suddenly started to shoot at us. My nephew was shot in the neck and collapsed. We fled in different directions but returned after the army truck had gone. I went to check on my nephew who lay in a pool of blood. He was already dead. Six other people lay dead. Two of them were women. I went and reported the killing of my nephew at Nyanyadzi police station, but as yet no arrests have been made.98 Another villager told Human Rights Watch that he saw soldiers kill his brother in Muchena village on November 14, 2008. Soldiers accused the villager’s brother of illegal diamond mining before force-marching the two of them to the hills where his brother was shot in the back of the head and died instantly.99 96 Human Rights Watch interviews with medical personnel B.K., A.C., and M.C., Mutare, February 7, 2009. 97 Ibid. 98 Human Rights Watch interview with local miner M.Z., Mutare, February 6, 2009. 99 Human Rights Watch interview with villager R.T., Marange, February 22, 2009. 33 Human Rights Watch | June 2009