Opium Production, Narcotics Financing and Trafficking in Southeast Asia
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: 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: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Wolfgang Sachsenroder
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2022-03-21
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9811247250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Southeast Asia is one of the biggest marketplaces for illicit drugs. The international syndicates with their billion-dollar profits are similar to the Hydra of the old Greek mythology which grew two new heads if one was cut off. Hercules eventually killed the monster with the help of his nephew who cauterised the fresh wounds before new heads could emerge. This story describes quite well the challenging task for the political and police efforts to fight the narcotics industry which has a long history in Asia. From the early 1800s, the East India Company dumped Indian opium on China and ruined the economy of both countries. During the colonial heydays, Britain in Malaya and Burma, France in Indochina, and the Netherlands in today's Indonesia, financed big parts of their colonial budgets with opium. In the 20th century, heroin ruined countless lives in Southeast Asia and in the West.Today, synthetic drugs, especially methamphetamines, are produced in hidden laboratories in remote areas of the region and smuggled across the porous borders. Drug prevention programs and the harsh penalties in all ASEAN states have not reduced the drug trade and the consumption. On the contrary, both are growing.This book analyses the detrimental impact of the drug industry on the political economy and the social developments in Southeast Asia. Shortcomings and lasting damages can be traced in the political structures, in the rampant corruption, and the secretive links between customs, armies, police organisations, and organised crime.
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. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 90
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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.
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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