LETTER | Dear Mr PM, Malaysia is traumatised
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LETTER | I am an international psychology trauma specialist. Ironically, the reason I can sit alone in silence and pen these thoughts is trauma. I have a family member in the isolation ward of a Kuala Lumpur hospital, under observation, having developed pneumonia as a result of the complete failure of the government-mandated Covid-19 quarantine. As my loved one lies in the hospital bed with dignity, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin lies in a hospital bed, desperate and having video conferences trying to hold on to power.
I have worked globally on female genital cutting, honour-based violence and killings, forced child prostitution and drug busts from South Asia to West Africa. Inroads have been made into these issues because of outrage on the ground and around the world. This is what I see happening in Malaysia: there is a growing, potent anger among the rakyat that I believe can and will affect needed change. Indeed,
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