Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ko-lin Chin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-02-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 080145719X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias. Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China. The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs. Chin explains the nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780674051348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bitter, brownish and sticky, opium - the sap of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum - has been cultivated from the earliest of times.