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BP: Avalanche of drugs predicted



                                            August 28, 1998 


                                  


                     NARCOTICS

 Avalanche of drugs
 predicted

 Chuan orders alert along the border

 Anucha Charoenpo

 Awarning that 200 million amphetamine pills will be smuggled into the
 country this year prompted the prime minister yesterday to order
 stepped-up suppression measures.

 Chuan Leekpai expressed grave concern at a Defence Council
 meeting at the prospect of amphetamines pouring across the border
 from a country he declined to identify.

 As part of the effort to head off the threat, Sanan Kachornprasart,
 interior minister, would hold talks with Chinese authorities in Kunming,
 said Mr Chuan.

 Pol Maj-Gen Chanvut Vajrabukka, deputy commissioner of the
 Narcotics Suppression Bureau, confirmed the report that 200 million
 tablets would be smuggled in this year.

 According to the bureau report, a large quantity of drugs was
 expected to be smuggled in from Burma. Ethnic minority groups have
 been held responsible for producing and supplying drugs to
 neighbouring countries, with Thailand a transit route.

 Pol Maj-Gen Chanvut said amphetamine abuse had mushroomed in
 the country since 1996, when 12 million tablets were seized. Police
 seized 30 million tablets last year and 27 million in the past six months
 alone, he said.

 The report, he said, would be raised at a meeting of anti-narcotics
 officials from Laos, Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia
 and the United Nations Drugs Control Programme.

 The bureau has been coordinating with the military and Border Patrol
 Police in an operation involving searches of villages thought to be
 trading or storage centres.

 Checkpoints have been set up along three major smuggling routes:
 Mae Sai-Chiang
 Rai-Phayao-Lampang-Uttaradit-Phitsanulok-Phetchabun-Bangkok to
 the South; Fang-Mae Ai-Chiang Mai-Lampang-Tak-Kamphaeng
 Phet-Nakhon Sawan-Bangkok to the South; and
 Kanchanaburi-Bangkok.

 Theerapat Santimathaneedol, deputy secretary-general of the
 Narcotics Control Board, said there were 23 amphetamine-producing
 plants along the Thai-Burmese border.

 To root out drugs, the agency would seek cooperation from
 neighbouring states and other countries, he added. 

                                                       
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