Myanmar junta says failing to halt surge in drug trafficking
YANGON - Myanmar junta authorities said they torched almost half a billion dollars worth of illegal drugs on Monday, but warned they were failing to stop a surge in production and trafficking of narcotics.
Televised torchings also took place elsewhere in the country, with a total of US$446 million of narcotics going up in smoke according to junta officials. “Even though countless drug abusers, producers, traffickers and cartels were arrested and prosecuted, the production and trafficking of drugs have not declined at all,” Mr Soe Htut told the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
This includes Myanmar’s Shan state – Southeast Asia’s primary source of meth, according to the United Nations – home to a patchwork of ethnic rebel groups and militias aligned with the country’s army.
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