I am a fifty-seven-year-old psychiatric expert working at the Hujung Medeni University Hospital. This is a report that I am making to defend myself, because since the fall of Datuk Priapus’s regime I have been facing the accusation of being a traitor to the nation and the Republic of Hujung Medeni as a consequence of having been the dictator’s private doctor.

This is my report. During the month of Ramadan in the year 2015, I received a phone call at about 3 o’clock in the morning, telling me that I was needed to attend an emergency case. The caller, who was the director of the University Hospital, informed me that an ambulance had been sent to take me to the patient.

About half an hour after that call, before I had time to have my pre-dawn meal or get ready, I was rushed into an ambulance by fifteen men in uniform and taken away. During the whole trip, I was blindfolded and none of the men spoke. The patient’s residence was a luxurious villa and upon arrival there, I was asked to sign an agreement not to reveal anything about the encounter, the disease, or the patient that I was going to treat.

The man with a short moustache who had given me the confidentiality agreement told me that I would face unwanted tragedy “if I disobeyed and told anyone about this”. I agreed to the offer because I believe that tragedy is just a misunderstood comedy.

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