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Diasporans concerned over Mugabe's health
05 Apr 2016 at 06:32hrs | Views
The Human Rights watch ,ROHR Zimbabwe (Restoration of Human Rights) has revealed that there is growing concerns with people in the diaspora over the health and age of President Robert Mugabe considering the fact that he was captured on camera dozing during a press conference in Japan recently.
"There is growing concern in the diaspora about the well-being of Zimbabweans when Mugabe goes. People in the know have already accepted that one day Mugabe will leave us," said ROHR. "They have prepared themselves – made a plan as it were. But the people the Vigil worry most about are those who have been led to believe that Mugabe is semi-divine. And it is clear there are many of them. For them the loss will be cataclysmic."
The organisation said Mugabe has gone to see his doctors in Singapore twice in the last few weeks so it is clear that he is about to take leave of us.
"We must be brave. Others have gone through similar trauma. We remember the mass hysteria in North Korea at the departure of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, whose people had been led to believe that he could never get ill. Scenes of public grief were broadcast around the world. Zimbabweans must show we are made of sterner stuff," said ROHR.
"We expect Harare to come to even more of a halt when the great transition occurs. So outside help will be urgently required to minimise grief-related suicides and post-traumatic stress disorders."
The organisation said to do our bit, we in the diaspora are appealing to the United Nations to prepare to send teams of bereavement counsellors who could fan out across the country.
"Para-psychotherapists could even be air-dropped in remote areas," said ROHR.
"There is growing concern in the diaspora about the well-being of Zimbabweans when Mugabe goes. People in the know have already accepted that one day Mugabe will leave us," said ROHR. "They have prepared themselves – made a plan as it were. But the people the Vigil worry most about are those who have been led to believe that Mugabe is semi-divine. And it is clear there are many of them. For them the loss will be cataclysmic."
The organisation said Mugabe has gone to see his doctors in Singapore twice in the last few weeks so it is clear that he is about to take leave of us.
"We must be brave. Others have gone through similar trauma. We remember the mass hysteria in North Korea at the departure of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, whose people had been led to believe that he could never get ill. Scenes of public grief were broadcast around the world. Zimbabweans must show we are made of sterner stuff," said ROHR.
"We expect Harare to come to even more of a halt when the great transition occurs. So outside help will be urgently required to minimise grief-related suicides and post-traumatic stress disorders."
The organisation said to do our bit, we in the diaspora are appealing to the United Nations to prepare to send teams of bereavement counsellors who could fan out across the country.
"Para-psychotherapists could even be air-dropped in remote areas," said ROHR.
Source - Byo24News
