From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 12:27:48 MDT
At 02:07 AM 16/09/99 -0700, Zeb wrote:
>One interesting thing I can tell you is to look into the amygdala (I think I
>spelled it right).
Yep.
A provocative report in today's Melbourne Age newspaper on the horrendous
mad-dog violence in East Timor (militias hacking people to bits, heads on
poles, that sort of fun thing) claims that some kind of psychotropic is
involved in hyping the bastards up:
< Another Dare refugee, Mr Adolpho Suares, said the militias had been
drugged before being led on their rampages by Indonesian troops.
< "When they take `anjing gila' they want to kill people everywhere. They
do not even recognise their own father or mother. They just kill. That's
why they call it `crazy dog' pill." >
(Age, Thurs 16 Sept, p. 13)
Could be a rural myth, of course, but sounds like something tuned to the
amygdala.
Damien Broderick
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