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MYANMAR and Thailand incinerated some US$400 million-worth of narcotics to mark World Drugs Day yesterday, but the United Nations warned opium production was on the rise in the region.
In Myanmar, which has long struggled to curb illegal drug production, some 1.3 tons of opium, 225 kilograms of heroin and 1.2 tons of methamphetamine tablets were razed in controlled blazes.
The haul was worth around US$130 million, according to Major Khin Maung Than of Myanmar’s anti-narcotics panel, who added that the country’s anti-drug campaign was running into problems in some regions that are home to ethnic groups where drug production is highest.
“As the government can’t reach agreement with some ethnic groups on anti-narcotics work, we can’t do the work effectively,” he said.
The bulk of the destroyed narcotics were seized in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, a province bordering Thailand, which has long been a hotbed of drug production, the proceeds of which may have fuelled conflict between ethnic rebels and Myanmar’s army.
The “Golden Triangle” region, covering parts of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, was formerly one of the world’s top producers of opium and heroin, until the emergence of Afghanistan.
Myanmar is the world’s second largest producer of opium — the raw ingredient for heroin — after Afghanistan, accounting for 10 percent of global production, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
In neighboring Thailand, some 2.5 tons of methamphetamine — known as crystal meth or “ice” — 21kg of heroin and 74kg of opium worth around US$272 million in total were destroyed in the city of Ayutthaya, the Public Health Ministry said.
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