Shan Drug Watch Newsletter Issue 3, October 2010

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Contents: Message from the Editor; Acreage up, output down; Junta?s drug elimination plan way behind schedule; Results of S.H.A.N.?s survey of opium cultivation during the 2009-2010 season; Burma Army ?draws pay from the hills?; Drug-free Burma by 2014?; Lower opium prices despite poor harvest; Junta militias stepping into the Wa vacuum; Poor addicts face jail, rich go free; Wa still the whipping boy of the Triangle; Rise of the new ?politically correct? drug bosses; Yaba flooding Shan State; Crop substitution for whom? Drug smugglers using ever new tricks

Source/publisher: 

Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.)

Date of Publication: 

2010-10-00

Date of entry: 

2010-10-02

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English

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