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Thailand relaunches 'war on drugs' - June 12 2008

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Thailand's government has resurrected the country's so-called war on drugs that claimed thousands of lives under Thaksin Shinawatra, the former prime minister. Selina Downes reports from near the Thai-Myanmar border where increased drug smuggling and opium production has prompted the crackdown.

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  • Prohibition of consensual crimes have never worked, and it always fuels crime, corruption and general police-state mentality among the sheeps. It's fucking RETARDED to give 7% of the world economy (illicit drugs market) over to terrorists, organized crime, corrupt regimes, crooked cops, violent gangs etc. 500 billion dollars in the wrong hands, each and every year. FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!

  • I love AlJazeera, but you guys need to try pronounce the Thai King's name correctly. :)

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  • Legalize it All !!!

  • Gosh, these Karen or Whatever tribe it is, they can never live peacefully in Thailand at all, they either sale their kids to a brothel or dealling drugs, not like our thai Gov, never help them out to grow something decent..they're just plain ignorant..thai gov. need to sent them back to Burma let them live peacefully over there. Damn

  • haha im sure there are more drug dealers then anywhere

  • The biggest drug dealer in Thailand : THE POLICE !!!

    They dont want get loose their business !

  • I'm sorry seeing this drugs war BULLSHIT makes me want to say "GO TATMADAW!"

  • Stateless refugee Lisu people are unable to produce drugs. No electricity, equips, skills to make drugs. We Lisu, for survival, have to plant Cash crops with "slash and burn" farming method coz no right to own the land where we live.

  • That is our Lisu ethnic minority village. Lisu Villagers there do not have normal Thai citizenship and so called stateless persons. As they do not have the right to the land, They have always to practice "slash and burn" farming method. Poppy field is the much more suitable than any alternatives like buckwheat and corn.

  • What makes drugs so wrong besides the government saying so.

  • humans are not human anymore we are all gna die 1 day painfully ; god punish the evil, but thats wat we are becoming ;S so get ready to feel the pain XD

  • Drugs is not good and Thaksin new it. People who do drugs have no right.

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