‘Godfathers’ surrender but meth keeps flowing

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''Despite the surrender of 102 alleged “godfathers” and their associates in Bangladesh, shipments of methamphetamines, or yaba, from Myanmar keep coming, The Daily Star newspaper reported. The Bangladesh government has a list of 43 drug traffickers and their family members who have not yet surrendered to the authorities. “A dozen ‘yaba’ dealers in Myanmar send ‘yaba’ shipments to Bangladesh once they receive orders from these godfathers,” the paper wrote on February 17. Drugs manufactured in Myanmar enter Bangladesh near Cox’s Bazar in the southeast, a long-time haven for smugglers of all kinds of goods. The Bangladesh government has launched a surrender program under which drug traffickers will not receive any general amnesty but will have to face legal action...''

Creator/author: 

Bertil Lintner

Source/publisher: 

Asia Times

Date of Publication: 

2019-02-18

Date of entry: 

2019-02-18

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  • Individual Documents

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Geographic coverage: 

    • Myanmar and Bangladesh

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Myanmar

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English

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text

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    • Good