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Posted : Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:11:44 GMT
Author : DPA
Category : Asia (World)

Beijing - The opening of a regional highway from Bangkok through Laos to south-western China's Yunnan province has encouraged more traffickers to try smuggling drugs into China, state media said Friday. Yunnan police and border forces have increased spot checks and used more mobile checkpoints while trying not to disrupt traffic along the highway, the government's Xinhua news agency quoted provincial security officials as saying.

 

"Since the Kunming-Bangkok Road was completed last year, we have arrested many suspects trying to smuggle drugs to China," Gong Huawu, the deputy head of provincial border troops, said at a meeting with officials from northern Laos this week.

 

"As trade and personnel exchanges between the two countries increase, we will be facing much heavier anti-drug pressures," Gong said.

 

Yunnan has long, porous borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, which are straddled by South-East Asia's notorious Golden Triangle of drug production and smuggling.

 

The province has China's highest rate of drug use and drug-related crime.

 

The government said heroin, methamphetamines and opium recovered in Yunnan last year accounted for 67 per cent, 33 per cent and 92 per cent of the national total, respectively.

 

Yunnan has 20 official border crossings and more than 90 roads to foreign countries, the newspaper said.

 

"The international drug-smugglers usually collect a certain amount of drugs along the border and then transport them to China by highway," it quoted another unidentified provincial security official as saying.

 

After declaring its latest "people's war on drugs" at the start of last year, Yunnan police had handled 18,727 drug-related cases by the end of May, questioning 22,040 suspects.

 

The province has prosecuted 59 traffickers accused of involvement in major cross-border drug-smuggling cases, the provincial government said.

 

Courts across China have executed or sentenced to death dozens of drug traffickers in recent days to mark Friday's UN-sponsored international anti-drugs day.

 

They include two men who were executed in north-eastern China for leading a gang which smuggled heroin from Myanmar.

 

Chinese officials work inside Myanmar to share their knowledge of developing alternative crops to opium poppies, and Chinese police have launched dozens of cross-border anti-drugs operations with Myanmar's military in recent years.

 

"We also need to educate villagers to prevent drug addiction and raise their awareness of fighting drug crimes," the agency quoted Yunnan police official Hang Guojian as saying.
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What next, maybe they'll discover steam.

The market is the outside world, and to get there Burmese heroin has to go somewhere. Kunming is a major city with rail, air, and road routes, last time I checked they have to bring police all the way down from Bejing because the local police are all in on the business. I used to take the bus a lot that went to Kunming coming from Ruli. The army stopped every single bus and seached the bags of any young Chinese guy. Couldn't trust the job to local police.

Good luck stopping the drugs, stop the corruption first.

Laos is simply another road, out of Burma, into China. Heroin addiction in Yunnan is staggering. Kids overdosing in high school.

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ban nok wrote:

What next, maybe they'll discover steam.

The market is the outside world, and to get there Burmese heroin has to go somewhere. Kunming is a major city with rail, air, and road routes, last time I checked they have to bring police all the way down from Bejing because the local police are all in on the business. I used to take the bus a lot that went to Kunming coming from Ruli. The army stopped every single bus and seached the bags of any young Chinese guy. Couldn't trust the job to local police.

Good luck stopping the drugs, stop the corruption first.

Laos is simply another road, out of Burma, into China. Heroin addiction in Yunnan is staggering. Kids overdosing in high school.


Yep, I agree with you about corruptions in China, it is very bad stemming from abuses of power by local authority to colluding with private businesses.  I read an article about a girl working in Beijing as a Karaoke bar waitress then one evening, a local communist official demanded sex from her as she refused his advances, he pushed her down onto a sofa twice and slapped her across the face with a wad of banknotes as he demanded special services. She then pulled out a fruit knife from her bag and stabbed him and later he was succumbed to his death at the hospital. Soon the news spreads out quickly through internet and ordinary citizens, academics, lawyers expressed their sympathy and solidarity with her; as a result, her case became a focal point for public anger at communist party officialdom and they banned the media coverage. But that only strengthened public suspicions of intent to cover up. The outpouring of sympathy for her and the anger on her tormentor got intensified. Many websites have indeed praised her for fighting injustice; some even posted poems, songs in her support.

Her case prompted the local government to post a statement online promising a fair hearing for her and thank God she was finally exonerated. Below is a picture of her and her mom.

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Wow I admire her bravery. tyrants will only rise to power if people will allow them to be. She's one lucky girl... because sometimes in some cases, llives have to be sacrificed before ordinary people get the courage to stand for their rights and dignity, or for the authorities to realize that 'bad"things has to finally come to an end and start rehabilitating their system.

China is known for cover ups.... she's really, really lucky!

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the court ruled that Deng should be spared punishment because the injury resulted from excessive force used in self-defense and that she had limited criminal responsibility because she was manic-depressive.

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