Strong message: Myanmar police walking past the site where seized drugs were burnt to commemorate World Anti-Drugs Day on the outskirts of Yangon. — AFP
Yangon: Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia torched nearly US$1bil (RM4.3bil) worth of seized narcotics, in a defiant show of force as police struggle to stem the rising flow of drugs in the region.
The burnings, to mark the UN’s World Anti-Drugs Day, follow another year of record seizures of narcotics from the remote borderlands of Myanmar, Laos, southern China and northern Thailand.
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