Fighting Drug Gangs In The Notorious Golden Triangle A Thai - TopicsExpress



          

Fighting Drug Gangs In The Notorious Golden Triangle A Thai police gunboat prowls the waters of the Mekong River searching for the drug gangs that haunt this territory deep in the Golden Triangle, an age-old smuggling route — with a new scourge. At one time this frontier region, where the remote edges of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos meet, was awash with heroin, flooding over the border from the then world’s biggest opium producer Myanmar. Times have changed and now the drug of choice is methamphetamine often in the form of “yaba” — Thai for “crazy medicine” — bound for the streets and clubs of Asia. “It is very difficult ….. continue reading →
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:08:31 +0000

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