Yme

Hello,

I'm just new here but I Googled Thaksin drug war and found some different information about the number of people supposedly killed.

According to this story War on drugs a failure says international group about a group calling for legalizing drugs there is a section on Drug arrests in Thailand increased by 1,796% between 2004 and 2009

Wildly proclaimed by some with vested interests as being a bloody orgy of extra-judicial executions by the Royal Thai Police (RTP) in which 2,575 alleged drug offenders were killed in the first three months – the official figure is 72 killed in 58 incidents involving police and 70,000 people arrested – statistics show that the only time the number of drug offenses decreased in Thailand between 1999 and 2009 was in this period.

In the ensuing five year period following the "Thaksin war on drugs" the number of drug cases has risen by 1,797 per cent, with Thailand's Office of the Narcotics Control Board says there was 223,294 drug offenses detected in Thailand in 1999, but in 2004 only 55,243.

The writer also has lots of figures about drug use in Thailand since. There's links in the story and what he says is backed up by other stories, including one that asks where the 2,575 dead figure comes from that a lot of people keep quoting.

If you dig back through all of the links it all comes back to the official figure of 72 killed. His other figures show that drug cases detected haven't risen back to the 2002 figures yet.

You're new here AND you just happened to be googling about Thaksin's war on drugs .............. right ...

Seeing as you're new, you probably aren't able to post links.

Well I Googled it after reading this posting and someone earlier said look it up so I did and I found that website with all of the figures about drug arrests from 1999 to 2009.

What struck me though was the big drop in 2003 and 2004.

I used to work in law enforcement so it interested me.

Is there something wrong with doing that?

Hello,

I'm just new here but I Googled Thaksin drug war and found some different information about the number of people supposedly killed.

According to this story War on drugs a failure says international group about a group calling for legalizing drugs there is a section on Drug arrests in Thailand increased by 1,796% between 2004 and 2009

Wildly proclaimed by some with vested interests as being a bloody orgy of extra-judicial executions by the Royal Thai Police (RTP) in which 2,575 alleged drug offenders were killed in the first three months – the official figure is 72 killed in 58 incidents involving police and 70,000 people arrested – statistics show that the only time the number of drug offenses decreased in Thailand between 1999 and 2009 was in this period.

In the ensuing five year period following the "Thaksin war on drugs" the number of drug cases has risen by 1,797 per cent, with Thailand's Office of the Narcotics Control Board says there was 223,294 drug offenses detected in Thailand in 1999, but in 2004 only 55,243.

The writer also has lots of figures about drug use in Thailand since. There's links in the story and what he says is backed up by other stories, including one that asks where the 2,575 dead figure comes from that a lot of people keep quoting.

If you dig back through all of the links it all comes back to the official figure of 72 killed. His other figures show that drug cases detected haven't risen back to the 2002 figures yet.