What to do About Cambodia's Meth Trade ?

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Dire warning on meth trade

Fri, 27 May 2016 Jack Davies

The trade in methamphetamine in the Greater Mekong Region including Cambodia is growing at an exponential rate and capacity to combat the problem is a “big challenge”, according to the UN’s top drug official in Southeast Asia.

Senior officials from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam met representatives from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Wednesday to discuss how best to combat the region’s rapidly expanding drug trade and provide updates on their progress in the drug war.

In recent years, seizures of methamphetamine have skyrocketed in the region, which Southeast Asia UNODC program coordinator Nay Soe described as the meth market’s “epicentre”. By 2015, pill seizures had doubled from 150 million tablets in 2010 and crystal meth seizures were up almost fivefold from 5 metric tonnes, according to provisional UNODC figures.

Cambodian seizures more than doubled in 2015, up from 87,000 pills and 29kg of crystal in 2014...

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Echoing a report earlier this year by the UNODC, Nay Soe said part of the problem is the growing interconnectedness of Mekong countries as transport infrastructure develops.

“They need to have a very proper border management mechanism. They also need to pay attention to the region’s development and plan to cope with the situation,” he said.

“Better connectivity could mean better flow of drugs. At the same time, the capacity to interdict is still a big challenge in Mekong states, including Cambodia. So I am really concerned about the future.”

He said that the police forces of many Mekong states, Cambodia included, lack the arms, manpower and training to win the “cat and mouse game” with drug traffickers.

However, General Secretary of Cambodia’s National Authority for Combating Drugs Meas Vyrith was not worried about the police’s ability to counter the surge in methamphetamine...

Full article: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/d ... meth-trade
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A thought from a successful Chinese anti-drug program: shoot them.
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I thought that was a Thaksin program.
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I mean, it worked successfully for Thaksin. It wasn't his original idea.
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It went successful for Thaksin.. Really?

Let it free. Legalize and control. Ask Australia for some more spending money and we'll see what happens. Which (ones) of the surrounding countries top-notch military will restore order?
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Username Taken wrote:I mean, it worked successfully for Thaksin. It wasn't his original idea.
Taksin is like 55 years after the Chinese approach, and he failed at it, loosing corrupt cops on whoever for whatever. When Mao was finished, the drug problem was ended. Taksin accomplished next to nothing.
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rebekah84expat wrote:It went successful for Thaksin.. Really?

Let it free. Legalize and control. Ask Australia for some more spending money and we'll see what happens. Which (ones) of the surrounding countries top-notch military will restore order?
Yep turn it into a social/medical issue over a criminal one.
Portugals stance on drugs is proof in the pudding.
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