ROHR

The crisis in Zimbabwe ranks among the world's worst government created humanitarian disasters

• lowest life expectancy in the world with an average age of 37 years
• over 85% of the population lives in poverty
• worst inflation in the world at over 7000% and rising
• 3.5 million have fled the country and 1000's more flee every week
• Zimbabwe had one of the best health care systems in Africa, now is one of the worst. Only 6 healthcare workers and 1 doctor per 10 000 people
• the government has sanctioned the use of excesive force and torture by the police and military
• innocent men, woman and children are brutalized and tortured by the police on a daily basis
• in May 2005, the government launched operation "drive out trash" resulting in 700,000 people losing their homes and livelihoods
• land redistribution ordered by the government has destroyed  Zimbabwe's agricultural commercial sector. Tobacco, Zimbabwe's main export, has falled from 2 million kilograms per year to 60 thousand in 6 years
• over 7000 people arrested in the past 6 months for not addhearing to government controlled prices
• in an effort to take over the mines, the government has arrested 20,000 people since 2006
• 2 million people are vunerable to starvation
• international food aid is being distributed by the government to its's supporters and punishes supporters of the opposition