Thursday, May 22, 2008

Trauma risk for Burmese aid workers -- and survivors --

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7414385.stm

Everyone is working with no psychiatric support whatsoever.

The only psychiatrist I heard of was one who went in with Thai team, and he was only there 2 weeks.

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...