Editorial

[marshbags]

Bangkok Post, General news, Wednesday July 30, 2008

EDITORIAL

Treachery of drug dealers

The battle against major drug traffickers sometimes seems interminable, for several reasons. The drug gangs themselves are implacable and relentless, in search of the obscene profits from the pitiless crime.

There is always demand for narcotics and other illegal drugs, a demand which, however, increases when there is more supply. Public revulsion against the trade wavers as well. And so, it often seems, does that of the authorities charged with eliminating the trafficking problem.

In any meaningful campaign against drug gangs, information is perhaps the most important element. Often, or so it seems to the public, authorities fail to develop decent intelligence and use it to the advantage of the public. Several recent cases, as well as the 20th century fight against drugs, shows that the worst enemy of a drug trafficker is another senior gang member. There is now an indication that authorities are on the edge of gaining valuable information to turn the tide against the biggest drug gang of the region, the United Wa State Army. Part of the reason for optimism has a name: Ho Chun-T'ing. He is a senior UWSA officer, captured in Hong Kong late last year. Anti-drug authorities say they believe Ho is about to follow the trail set by similar big-shot drug dealers caught in similar circumstances. Put succinctly, Ho seems convinced that the only way out of a legal system that may ensure he dies in a foreign prison, is to start telling what he knows about his colleagues and their trafficking of heroin and methamphetamines which have caused so much pain and violence in Thailand and neighbouring countries.

According to anti-narcotics agents, a senior drug trafficker caught in the justice system almost always sings. Two conjoined reasons drive such men: pride and self-interest. Most are arrogant about what they see as a successful "business" feeding hugely expensive drugs to mostly poor and young victims. But seeing themselves deeply enmeshed in the legal system they cannot escape, they usually try to bargain their fate by shopping former colleagues, friends and family in the business.

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We all know, usually, what the fate of such individuals is, sadly many innocents have, and still suffer a similar fate.

marshbags

Edited July 30, 2008 by marshbags

[Ulysses G.]

Mostly only little guys - like dirt-poor paid couriers - get caught and serve horrible prison sentences while the super-rich police and politicians who are behind the whole trade go scot free and live like kings. There is no justice.