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All this talk about Thai-Burma cooperation on drugs, doesnt it smack of
hypocrisy, when in fact, Thailand is a major trading partner with the
regime, some several hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Comments?
ds


DR.ZAW wrote:
> 
> "Thailand, Burma join forces to crack down on Asean drug trade"
> 
> "The Asian Age" Newspaper
> Date March 10, 1999.
> Bangkok: Thailand and Burma on Tuesday announced a deadline-bound joint
> crackdown on drugs to eliminate its trafficking and use in the
> Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
> The agreement was made at meetings in northern Thailand between Thai
> Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and his Burmese counterpart senior General
> Than Shwe. "They agreed to intensify the cooperation and coordination of
> law enforcement efforts with the aim of achieving the total eradication
> of illicit drug production, processing, trafficking and use in Asean by
> the Year 2020", a joint statement issued here said. The deadline was set
> at Asean leaders meeting in Manila last year. Military-run Burma jointed
> the regional grouping in 1997, despite protests from many western
> nations, which allege gross human rights violations and say the junta is
> profiting from the drug trade. The statement issued at the end of a
> two-day visit here by Than Shwe, said Bangkok and Yangon had made it a
> priority in bilateral relations to crush the illicit narcotics trade.
> (AFP)