19 November 2004

Thai drugs smuggling networks reform

20. November 2004

By Anthony Davis

Jane's Intelligence Review

Narcotics trafficking networks in Thailand have reformed following the

government crackdown of 2003, and new routes are now being used to

shift heroin and methamphetamines from Myanmar through Thailand and

beyond.

At a heavy cost in human life and government expenditure, Thailand's

highly publicised 2003 'war on drugs' severely disrupted trafficking

and distribution networks in the Kingdom and resulted in a concurrent

slowdown in the volume of amphetamine-type stimulants and heroin being

smuggled in from neighbouring Myanmar (Burma).

One year later, however, it is apparent that new networks are

developing and the flow of both amphetamine-type stimulants and heroin

into the Kingdom is once again on the rise. Addiction rates and

seizures are unlikely to return to the crisis levels of the first

years of the decade but, short of marked changes in the situation in

northeast Myanmar, Thailand has no decisive victory to celebrate.

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