Elias and Sebastiao Dhlakama, brothers of the leader of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), who died on Thursday, have said today that there was no need for an autopsy.
“There is no need for it. The autopsy, for us, brings nothing else but speculation, really,” they told reporters.
“He got sick like any human being,” Elias said, adding that the Mozambican opposition leader “died like any other citizen.”
Afonso Dhlakama “has found death in a place where a doctor had never gone before,” one who had conducted exams to determine “the clinical state,” so everything that is said “is speculation,” he said.
“Nobody knows what took him, what we know is that he was sick,” concluded Elias Dhlakama.
Afonso Dhlakama’s two relatives spoke at the end of a meeting with a government delegation, who went to a family home in Beira to offer condolences.
The delegation included Justice Minister Isac Chande and Minister of Public Works and Housing, Carlos Bonete.
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Afonso Dhlakama died on Thursday at the age of 65, in Gorongosa Mountain, due to health complications.
The official funeral ceremonies of the Mozambican opposition leader are scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, in the Beira city railway station square and he will be buried in Mangunde, his homeland, on Thursday.
Source: Lusa
