Mugabe: The man who single-handedly raped and ruined Zimbabwe

[Konovalov]

This article from the Independent truly shocked me: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle1990401.ece

Some of the shocking statistics and evidence of what Mugabe calls "progress" for his so-called "beloved nation":

4m The amount the population is thought to have fallen since the last census in 2002. Current estimates put it as low as 8 million.

34 Life expectancy for women. It was 65 just over a decade ago. It is much lower than in neighbouring countries: in Zambia, life expectancy for women is 40; in Mozambique, 46; in Botswana, 40; in South Africa, 49.

120/1000 The infant mortality rate. During the 1990s, it was 61/10-00.

7,000 The cost in Zimbabwean dollars of a dose of anti-retroviral drugs to combat Aids.

50% The amount Zimbabwe's economy has shrunk since 1999.

2000% The rate of inflation in Zimbabwe. In 1980, when the country became independent, the rate was 7 per cent.

73m The size of Zimbabwe's tobacco output in millions of tonnes. In 2000 it was 734 million.

This thug of a dictator has taken his country and it's people down the path of misery, suffering, and ruin.