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DRUG TRAFFICKERS USE THAILAND AGAIN
- Subject: DRUG TRAFFICKERS USE THAILAND AGAIN
- From: moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:23:00
Drug traffickers begin using Thailand again
6th february 1999
NCB
Recent drug busts in southern Thailand seem to
indicate that ``Golden
Triangle'' traffickers are again using Thailand as a
principal north-south
route for their heroin shipments.
``Three years ago the traffickers began to use China
and Vietnam as
the major heroin routes to Europe, America and other
markets,'' said
Chatichai Sithiklam, head of the drug-suppression
unit of the Thai
Narcotics Control Board (NCB). ``But since the
Chinese government
began a crackdown on the trade, traffickers have gone
back to using
Thailand as a route.''
In their most recent seizures, NCB agents confiscated
90 bars of
heroin, weighing 99 pounds, after following trucks
from the northern
town of Mae Sai. The agents said the heroin had come
from Burma
(Myanmar) and had been transported into Thailand by
members of an
ethnic minority group living along the border. The
three men arrested,
however, were Thai.
The NCB said it seized about 1,000 pounds of Golden
Triangle heroin
last year. Most of the heroin sold in the United
States comes from the
triangle, the mountainous region where eastern Burma,
Laos and
northern Thailand come together.