FANG DISTRICT, CHIANG MAI – Of the about 600 residents of Huay Nok Kok village, near northern Thailand’s border with Myanmar, an estimated 10 per cent are addicted to drugs, village elder Nang Nasee Kirirasami tells The Straits Times. Read more at straitstimes.com.
FANG DISTRICT, CHIANG MAI – Of the about 600 residents of Huay Nok Kok village, near northern Thailand’s border with Myanmar, an estimated 10 per cent are addicted to drugs, village elder Nang Nasee Kirirasami tells The Straits Times.
Huay Nok Kok is located in Chiang Mai province’s Fang district, a mountainous area that abuts Myanmar’s Shan state. The latter has long been used as a hub for narcotics production by ethnic armed groups and militias as well as criminal syndicates that base themselves in these semi-autonomous areas.the military junta there has struggled to quell a resistant population as well as numerous armed groups that have emerged to challenge its takeover.
According to Thai police, 56,294 drug suspects were arrested at Thailand’s borders with Laos and Myanmar in the year after the Myanmar coup. The length of both borders combined is more than 4,000km. The struggle between smugglers and security officials has intensified. In the forests of Fang, the Thai army’s Pha Mueang task force killed 15 suspected smugglers on Dec 7 after a brief firefight.
Thai roads like these near the Myanmar border make it easy for drugs smuggled to be transported to other parts of Thailand, say locals. ST PHOTO: TAN HUI YEE Mr Wichai Chaimongkhon, secretary-general of Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board, acknowledged that the turmoil in Myanmar has made it impossible for regular drug enforcement officials to enter parts of the country.
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