Civil war drives drugs epidemic across border


Detoxing: Lahu men taking part in a religious cleansing ceremony in the village of Mae Haeng in Thailand’s Mae Ai district. — AFP

Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Thailand have become collateral damage from the civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, turning to drugs as supply through the area rockets on the back of the conflict.

The area is part of the Golden Triangle – where the two countries’ borders meet Laos – once the world’s biggest opium hub when wars raged across Indochina in the 1960s and 70s.

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