To Evariste Kassanda, 33-year-old chief of the Congo's elite Police des Mines, nearly everyone and everything coming out of the diamond-rich Kasai province is suspect. In search of an estimated $20 million in diamonds a year smuggled out of the Congo, he and his men have found contraband gems hid den in elephant tusks, embedded in bars of soap, even pumped into the stomachs of small edible crocodiles on their way to market.
The smugglers' tactic that Kassanda finds hardest to handle is the use of what he calls the "secret cavities" of the human body. Three weeks ago, he...
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