Inside the Drug War in Southeast Asia
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In September 2015, Myanmar’s democratic stateswoman Aung San Suu Kyi traveled to the country’s lawless drug producing region to publicize the country’s urgent need for anti-drug policy. The Southeast Asian country is a main player in global narco-trafficking, and its poppy cultivation has nearly tripled since 2006. Most of these illicit activities occur in the infamous Golden Triangle. So, what exactly is the Golden Triangle? Well, the Golden Triangle is a region overlapping the rural mountains of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. It is Southeast Asia’s primary opium-producing area, accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s opium This makes the Golden Triangle the second largest opium producer, after Afghanistan. Opium is extracted from vast poppy fi...
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In September 2015, Myanmar’s democratic stateswoman Aung San Suu Kyi traveled to the country’s lawless drug producing region to publicize the country’s urgent need for anti-drug policy. The Southeast Asian country is a main player in global narco-trafficking, and its poppy cultivation has nearly tripled since 2006. Most of these illicit activities occur in the infamous Golden Triangle. So, what exactly is the Golden Triangle? Well, the Golden Triangle is a region overlapping the rural mountains of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. It is Southeast Asia’s primary opium-producing area, accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s opium This makes the Golden Triangle the second largest opium producer, after Afghanistan. Opium is extracted from vast poppy fi...
