A less publicized genocide is currently taking place in Zimbabwe.

Sub-saharan Africa is no stranger to corrupt government leaders. This is the region of the world that brought us Idi Amin, South African apartheid, and Rwanda just to name a few. But now a quiet genocide is killing potentially millions of people in this former "breadbasket" country (to quote the Guardian article), and not only is no one doing anything about it, the disgusting tyrant is being allowed to enforce his rule.

Zimbabwe's yearly inflation rate is now at 782 percent and the Zimbabwean dollar has been in a "freefall" since 2000, when President Mugabe ordered the seizure of 5,000 white owned farms in a redistribution program known as "fast-track land distribution". This scheme is now responsible for some of the worst labor exploitation in the modern world, where laborers on formerly white-owned farms make as little as $3 a month, compared to $55 a month for their private counterparts.

In 2000, one US dollar was worth 55 Zimbabwean dollars.

In 2006, one US dollar is worth 99,000 Zimbabwean dollars.

Food prices? Up 824 percent -- along with non-alcoholic beverages.

Cost of living in Zimbabwe is now $90 a month, more than twice most people's salaries.

4.3 million people in Zimbabwe are now dependent on international food aid. (This was the former "breadbasket" of Southern Africa.)

And this is not happening in a vacuum. One in 5 citizens has HIV and is unable to work. That's 2 and a half million people slowly dying, and annual inflation rates are going up 168% in a month?

Are, then, the attempts on his life the result of aggression or the result of desperation at the fact that no one one knows can afford to feed his or her family?

Could you imagine would would happen if a pack of cigarettes were $50? If a box of cereal were $30? How would America react?

There must be something we can do to curb this madman.