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NEWS or PROPAGANDA ?? by Xinhua
Stimulant Tablets Seized in Myanmar Border Town
Xinhua
19-JAN-98
YANGON (Jan. 20) XINHUA - A total of 20,000 amphetamine
tablets,
a kind of stimulant narcotic drug, was seized by the
Myanmar
authorities last week in Tachilek, a border town in the
country's Shan
state opposite to Thailand, official newspaper The New
Light of
Myanmar reported Tuesday.
The stimulant tablets, together with some proceeds from
drug
trafficking business, were confiscated from eight local
residents in the
township by local Myanmar Defense Services Intelligence
unit, army
battalion, police force and anti-drug squad on January
14-16.
Action is being taken against the drug traffickers, the
report said.
According to official statistics, Myanmar seized over 5
million stimulant
tablets in the country in 1997.