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And if His Heinous Obozo has his way, millions of crazy somalians will be let loose in america even though all they can do is crime and welfare.
170,000 Mentally ill tied to trees and left to die in Somalia |
October 9, 2013
In Somalia theres a belief that a mentally ill person can be cured by shutting them in a room with a hyena.
Mentally ill people in the war-ravaged country are often chained or locked up. Others are tied to trees and abandoned when their families are forced to flee fighting.
In one of the most moving radio interviews Ive heard in a long time, psychiatric nurse Abdirahman Ali Awale, who is commonly known as Dr Habeeb, told how he was reduced to tears every day by what he sees.
Somalia has one of the worlds highest rates of mental illness with one in three people affected, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Many Somalis attribute behavioural problems to bad spirits and seek help from religious leaders or traditional healers. One of the most extreme treatments involves locking a person up with a hyena.
In Somalia, theres this belief that hyenas can see everything including the thing that causes mental illnesses, says Habeeb.
Two hyenas were brought from the bushes and brought to Mogadishu. Patients were locked in a room with the hyena with the belief that when the thing that caused the mental problem sees the hyena it would leave the body of the patient and the patient would be fine after that.
This treatment is not cheap the cost can be around $560, according to Habeeb. Its also highly dangerous. Patients are left with long lasting trauma, physical injuries and even die, according to a WHO report on mental health in Somalia.
Habeeb told the BBC more than 170,000 people have been locked and left to die. And no one in authority is talking about it.