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BP: Avalanche of drugs predicted
- Subject: BP: Avalanche of drugs predicted
- From: suriya@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:07:00
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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