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Escalating the Mekong War on Drugs

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Jun 05, 2014
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The seizure yesterday of more than a million methamphetamine tables worth more than Bt200 million (US$6.2 million) being smuggled from Myanmar into Thailand is the latest episode in an intensifying war against drugs by six countries along the Mekong River Basin.

The meth pills were being transported via the Ruak River bordering Thailand and Myanmar in Ch…

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