Gov't crackdown on drugs to begin 1 Jan 2017.

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More than 1000 people have been arrested in the government crackdown on drugs, and now they don't know what to do with them all. Khmer media arrest photos show large numbers of people arrested with very small quantities of drugs. If the goal of the crackdown on drugs was to make spectacular arrest numbers, it has been very successful so far. But then what ?

Drug crackdown pushes courts and prisons to breaking point
Fri, 20 January 2017
Yesenia Amaro
A new crackdown on drugs has netted more than one thousand drug users and dealers throughout the country. But can crowded prisons and busy courts keep up?

Nguyen Thy Yem and her husband, Bouy Thanh Men, have been using drugs since they married a decade ago. Together, they do meth and heroin in the backstreets of the capital. But Thanh Men insists that he and his wife are users, not dealers. Nonetheless, his wife now faces drug-dealing charges after being arrested on January 10.

She and four others scooped up in the raid in Chbar Ampov district are just a few of the many recently snared in a new nationwide crackdown on drugs. She is also one of the many languishing in pre-trial detention in Prey Sar prison.

In the first two weeks of the year, authorities say they have arrested more than a thousand dealers and drug users. While analysts and government officials recognise a rise in drug use, they say the recent explosion in arrests could exacerbate two already thorny problems: prison overcrowding and a backlog of drug cases stuck in the courts...
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Month in, capital still lacks drug crackdown plan
Fri, 3 February 2017
Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday called out the Phnom Penh Municipality – which he referred to as the country’s largest hub for drug trafficking and drug use – for not having yet submitted its action plan for the nationwide drug crackdown launched last month.

As of yesterday, the Ministry of Interior had received such plans from just 11 provinces, Kheng said during a meeting to mark the first month of the initiative.

“What interests me, is that Phnom Penh, which is the nest of drugs, hasn’t sent its action plan to the ministry,” he said, blaming Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Khuong Sreng and Phnom Penh police chief Choun Sovann.

Kheng noted that the very word “campaign” means there has to be a special program. “So, the rest that have not [submitted] an action plan have to finish it,” he said...
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If you always wondered what happens behind the scenes in all these mug shots of Cambodians who are busted for drugs, then wonder no more:

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Note: All suspects are of course presumed innocent until proven guilty of course.
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Hidden victims of war on drugs
Fri, 24 February 2017
Martin de Bourmont and Sen David

Cambodia's war on drugs is in full swing, routinely grabbing headlines as ever-growing numbers of suspects – more than 4,000 so far, most of them users – swell the Kingdom’s jails.

But behind the high-profile raids, the campaign is having an alarming, albeit hidden, side effect, observers say: With the crackdown multiplying risks for drug users, many are shunning health and substitution therapy services offered by NGOs and clinics, thereby increasing the likelihood they will overdose or contract and transmit HIV, AIDS, and tuberculosis.

Data collected by the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA), a national NGO specialising in HIV prevention, shows that during the first month of Cambodia’s drug crackdown, the organisation saw a 15 percent reduction in the number of drug users receiving “harm reduction” services across the board, from 425 people to 359.

These services include needle exchanges, condom and hygiene product distribution, counselling, access to antiretroviral treatment, and HIV education sessions. KHANA also provides transportation for recovering drug addicts to receive methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.

Individual KHANA programs have been even harder hit than a 15 percent total drop would suggest. Participation in its needle-exchange program, for instance, decreased from 138 people to 75 – a 46 percent drop.

KHANA supplies needles at 11 locations, three times a week. However, since the crackdown began, many drug users fear being stopped by police while carrying evidence of their drug use.

Within a month of the crackdown’s initiation in January, 21 out of 112 individuals receiving help from KHANA to access MMT stopped reporting for their treatments. Sok Chamreun believes they stopped coming “because they feared that police would follow them”.
Still, Sok Chamreun cannot be sure if the 21 people stopped MMT because they feared arrest or because they were actually arrested. “We don’t know where they are; we could not find them,” he said...
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Mekong states sign on to UN policy on drugs
11 May 2017
With the Kingdom in the middle of a controversial “war on drugs”, six Mekong countries agreed yesterday to adopt a regional drug policy that puts health care first, and mandates police and judicial cooperation.

Ministers and delegates from Cambodia, China, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand met with representatives from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) over three days, culminating in yesterday’s agreement, billed as “a coordinated regional response to drug production, trafficking, and use”.

Jeremy Douglas, regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific for UNODC, explained that as the region integrates more, efforts to combat the effects of drugs must become more coordinated. The new regional policy will focus on health-based solutions, law enforcement cooperation to address porous borders and judicial cooperation.
But, he said during the conference, “Health needs to come first.”

Cambodia has long been criticised for the involuntary detention of drug users in “rehabilitation centres” that some describe as torturous and devoid of genuine treatment...
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Two men were arrested when attempting to sell drugs that they had trafficked from Laos to an undercover policeman. Photo shows policewoman counting the bags of drugs during the search and seizure:
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A Lao and a Cambodian were arrested in Stung Treng province yesterday for attempting to traffic more than a kilo of drugs across the border.
Mr Van was arrested in Thalaborivat district’s O-Svay commune in possession of 978.6 grams of crystal methamphetamines while Mr Toan was arrested with 30 big packages of methamphetamines, made up of 6,000 WY tablets.
Both have been detained for questioning at the provincial military police headquarters and are due to appear in court today.
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Photos relating to the post above.
The two busts were conducted separately. There appears to be an emphatic crackdown on the cross-border drug trafficking between Laos and Cambodia recently.
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Case 1:
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Case 2:
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This article was published last month, but don't think it's been posted here:
Why are abuse claims in Cambodia’s war on drugs being ignored?
HE’s campaign may not feature the violence of Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown in the Philippines, but advocates still warn of ‘gradual but deadly’ rights abuses...
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/ ... ng-ignored
As was posted earlier, a lot of people are being arrested for very small amounts of drugs. At least they are not shooting them, but throwing drug addicts in jail just gives the false impression that the authorities are actually doing something about the problem.

Anyway, the "crackdown" is due to finish at the end of the month, so then they can release all the druggies, and stop posting all those mugshots of skinny kids with two rocks, a straw and 3 cigarette lighters.
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As was posted earlier, a lot of people are being arrested for very small amounts of drugs
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Like this man arrested earlier today...
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