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SCMP : Drug find 'covered up'



South China Morning Post
Wednesday  July 15  1998

Drug find 'covered up' 

BURMA by William Barnes in Bangkok 
Narcotics seizures have been covered up by the military regime in Rangoon
to protect their drug-dealing allies in the Golden Triangle, according to
the All Burma Students Democratic Front.

The Bangkok-based exile group said that by not reporting the interceptions
of drug shipments, the junta was showing itself to be the traffickers'
accomplice.

The exiles said 6kg of heroin were confiscated on the Chinese border after
a gunfight on June 6 when members of two powerful gangs clashed.

Drug-runners from the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance snatched the
illicit merchandise from the United Wa State Army.

The student exiles said that instead of reporting the drug find, military
intelligence mediated between the two groups.