Some 25,000 people were reported to have attended the launch on Saturday of “Buhay Ingatan, Droga’y Ayawan” or Bida at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, with similar events held simultaneously at the Cebu Plaza Independencia in Cebu City, Xavier Ateneo Sports Centre in Cagayan de Oro City, and People’s Park in Davao City. Such fanfare might be necessary to herald the new government’s anti-illegal drug campaign, which promises to be starkly different from the
The Cambodian people were traumatized by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975-1979 that killed nearly a quarter of the country’s then 7.8 million population. Cambodian psychiatrist Dr. Sotheara Chhim knew that the mental condition afflicting a large number of his people was something beyond post-traumatic stress disorder as well-known in the Western world, and requires a distinct kind of intervention. He describes many of those who underwent and survived that ordeal as people whose “souls had left their bodies,” with an affliction locally known as baksbat (“broken courage”), marked by passivity, fear, and avoidance. More than four decades after the
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