Michela Wrong Has Yet to Heal From the January Syndrome

 

Michela Wrong’s mood swings are understandable. The months of December and January have been difficult period for her since 2014. 

The latest diatribe in support of terrorist financer Paul Rusesabagina is a symptom of what has come to be the January Syndrome. 

For starters, Michela Wrong was a concubine of Rwanda’s former spy chief Col Patrick Karegeya who was found dead on 1st January 2014 in a South African hotel. 

Wrong chronicled the relationship in her book throughout it’s pages. I reviewed the book here: Michela Wrong’s Love Affair With Patrick Karegeya Is All Over Her Book’s Pages 

The pain has not gone away. It become more visible as the anniversary gets closers and takes it’s toll during the month after. 

One would expect that as years elapse, Wrong would have gotten over her troubling ordeal. But it appears, for 2022, the impact of the syndrome is going on into February. That’s why you are seeing Wrong is all over the place.  

When Rusesabagina came into the picture, Michela Wrong had hoped he could complete the plan to change government in Rwanda which had been Karegeya’s scheme. 

In Wrong’s mind, Rusesabagina would have used the fame obtained from selling the pain of victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, to accomplish Karegeya’s plan. 

The language and choice of words in Wrong’s latest reporting in Florida's Tampa Bay Times newspaper, is that of a pained widower out to vent her grief. 

By coming to Rusesabagina’s defense, in complete disregard of what readers of the Tampa Bay Times expect from their local newspaper, Wrong is in effect comforting herself. 

If at all, Wrong actually needs our support in these difficult times. 


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