"Proponents of increased counter-narcotics assistance for Burma should be reminded of how it was misused in the past. As the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC, lobbies governments to increase their contributions to opium eradication projects, it is worth looking back on the last major phase of international funding of narcotics suppression, to be reminded of what Burma?s military government did with it. In particular, the misuse of US aid should provide a cautionary tale to any bilateral or multilateral donors..."