The Destroyer Part I

In the first part of this article it talks mostly about Robert Mugabes nephew Leo. Leo is an entrepreneur and has stakes in many companies including the mobile phone network in Zimbabwe. He is the director of Zimbabwe's Defense Industries which is in charge of the purchasing of weapons for Mugabe's army, most of the weaponry coming from China now days. Also he controls a farm that was taken from a white farmer. In 2005 he ran for Parliament for the Zimbabwe African National Union or also known as the ZANU, he won the election in a landslide. Leo was recently added to a sanctions list by the US, the sanctions include no traveling, the freezing of foreign assets and prohibits any Americans doing business with him. Not only was he on the US sanctions list but also put on the list by the European Union for the arms deals he was involved in. When Robert Mugabe found out about this he unleashed hell among the country's presidential campaign. More than 150 opposition supporters were brutally murdered, raped, and beaten terribly. He sent them to reeducation camps where they were tortured. Due to all the violence Mugabe's opposition Morgan Tsvangirai, who won in the first round of the elections, dropped out of the race and went in to hiding because he was afraid for his life. In the next vote Mugabe had no opposition and therefore was declared the winner. Leo blames the suffering of the Zimbabwean people on the sanction's that were set by the US, Britain and Europe. Although that week the inflation rate in Zimbabwe sky rocketed to 11 million percent and a little while later was announced at 230 million percent. Eighty percent of people were out of jobs twenty percent of people were infected with HIV. Two million people relied on food aiding services for their meals. And the average age for men and women are around 40 years old, but Leo doesn't think so, "people are going about their business, their not starving, their driving nice cars.