The Death of Mental Health

Half the population of Aceh is reported to be mentally disturbed. The cure: set up a crisis center and stop the war.

January 20, 2004

WAR everywhere is the same: it creates winners, losers and casualties. In Hungary there is Margit, in Aceh there is Zarkani. The difference? Margit, a Hungarian teenage girl at the time of the oppression by the Red Army in the 1950s, saw with her own eyes, her father beaten up in a Budapest restaurant. He had become angry after his daughter was about to be molested by a Russian soldier. Seconds later, the father was dead.

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