2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Volume I Drug and Chemical Control

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Search for Burma... "Burma failed demonstrably to make sufficient efforts during the last 12 months to meet its obligations under international counternarcotics agreements and the counternarcotics requirements set forth in section 489 (a) (1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended. Burma still is the largest source of methamphetamine pills in Asia, and pill production continues to grow. Burma?s military government has taken no consistent action against the largest methamphetamine pill manufacturing and trafficking group in Asia, the United Wa State Army, an armed semi-autonomous ethnic minority organization, which has caused considerable hardship for Burma?s neighbors in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. On occasion, Burmese authorities have accepted casualties, in the enforcement of Burma?s anti-narcotics laws, but overall Burma has not mounted a serious, direct, and effective confrontation of the known narcotics manufactures and traffickers operating from its territory..."

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United States Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs

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2008-02-29

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2009-03-06

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English

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