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Sasro Zabi

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Sasro Zabi (サスロ・ザビ Sasuro Zabi?) is the second son of the vice chairman of the Autonomous Republic of Munzo, Degwin Sodo Zabi, and director of the Zeon Party's national campaign department. While not present in the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, he is first mentioned in the Mobile Suit Gundam novel, published in 1979.

Personality & Character

During his brief time on-screen in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin: Blue-Eyed Casval, Sasro was been shown to be very strict and short-tempered, being severe to even his own family members, slapping Kycilia for foiling his plan, stating later to Dozle that she had been too full of herself lately, just before his death in a car bomb explosion. 

In Mobile Suit Gundam The Plot to Assassinate Gihren, Sasro is described by Hoth Fieseler as "bold and lively with a large number of subordinates, always mingling with the people," the sort of popular figure who could go on to become the leader of a country.[1]

History

Sasro is seen when the Deikuns first view Zeon Zum Deikun's corpse, in a lineup of Munzo politicians alongside Zabi family members Gihren, Dozle and Kycilia. Later on, at the Zabi family residence, Sasro berates Kycilia for letting them escape with Ramba Ral, and violently slaps her, causing her to draw blood, to which only Dozle objects. Sasro states that the only way to deal with the Ral family is to eliminate them. He leaves with Gihren.

During the funeral procession of Zeon Zum Deikun in U.C. 0068, Sasro was killed in a car bomb; his younger brother Dozle survived with just lacerations on his face and body. While supporters of the Zabi regime blamed Jimba Ral for the assassination, the juxtaposition in The Origin implise that the bomb was planted by Kycilia, as revenge for Sasro slapping her.

An alternative explanation for Sasro's assassination is given in Mobile Suit Gundam The Plot to Assassinate Gihren. In U.C. 0079, Zeon Public Peace Department detective Leopold Fieseler meets with his grand father, Hoth Fieseler, who reveals himself as a former member of a covert operations group operated by the Zabi family from before the founding of the autonomous republic (before U.C. 0050 at the latest). Hoth says that the name assigned to him by Degwin Zabi was "Reginleif", but that later operatives also used the name. Hoth warns his grandson about digging too deeply into the past: "Leo... The key to surviving in this country is to leave uneeded knowledge left unknown. There is one thing I can declare with certainty, though: Reginleif will never betray the Zabi family."[2] Leo replies that his investigation into Reginleif has found that Reginleif was involved in the assassination of Sasro Zabi. Leo describes Sasro as a shrewd businessman who was Gihren's right-hand man. Hoth replies with a question: "Keeping people at a distance, thinking things over carefully by himself, the sharp-mannered Gihren. Bold and lively with a large number of subordinates, always mingling with the people, Sasro. So, who do you think the people would choose? Had both of them lived, the country may have been split in two. This would have led to the newly-born principality to be easily destroyed from within, even before an intervention by the Federation. Decisive actions had to be taken before it was too late. So if you at that time agitated the dissatisfied people, then they would get the picture...."[3] Leo, in disbelief, asks whether his grandfather is saying that the Zabi family chose Gihren over Sasro. Hoth deflects: "That's how it is in families that stand above others, and that is how it must be. If there are two leading positions, what would happen with the people? The nation?"[4] In this explanation, Sasro was killed to avoid a popular movement supporting Sasro as leader of Zeon instead of Gihren.

A third explanation is given in the Mobile Suit Gundam novelization: "If [Gihren] regretted anything, it was that his younger brother, Sasro, had been assassinated in the early struggles with the Deikun faction, for Sasro would have been ideally suited to work in government administration."[5] This is the only mention of Sasro in the book.

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  1. ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam: The Plot to Assassinate Gihren, volume 3, chapter 20, pp. 386-390, "/a/non (Mecha)" scanlation
  2. ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam: The Plot to Assassinate Gihren, volume 3, chapter 20, pp. 386-387, "/a/non (Mecha)" scanlation
  3. ↑ ibid, pp. 388-389
  4. ↑ ibid, pp. 390
  5. ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation, Stone Bridge Press 2004 omnibus edition, pp. 329-330. Via Archive.org.

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