101 East - Thai Drug Killings - 06 Sept 07 - Part 1

We look at the legacy of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's 'war on drugs'.

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• 101
• east
• aljazeera
• Thailand
• drug
• killings
• Thaksin
• Shinawatra

[5147848amp]

Agreed. Killing the drug dealers doesn't close the market; it just means someone else becomes the drug dealer.

Education education education!

[UlsonGunnerNews]

Answer to drugs is education - something the Thai government is not very familiar with - on a personal or political level.

Education also solves problems like economic depression, corruption, and nepotism - something the Thai government is VERY familiar with.

[badpanda84]

@5147848amp "You'd have to kill every buyer and seller to close a market:"

True it would be impraticable to totally stop the drug trade -- but the majority of the drugs are made by a handful of gangs..

[5147848amp]

@badpanda84

You'd have to kill every buyer and seller to close a market: And seeing as self-intoxication is a global, history-wide market, you'd have to kill everyone in the world, along with everyone who has ever lived.

Let's become ecological secret agents instead, eh. Killing brothers and sisters is SO two minutes ago..

[badpanda84]

@5147848amp "Agreed. Killing the drug dealers doesn't close the market"

True but killing the right people will close the market

[KripDrip]

so you wanna make it easier for these criminal drug dealing scum to make money selling drugs and ruining lives?

[iamkingofthecastle]

I support the war on drugs... take a tough stance and people back down... better than a slap on the wrist... Thailand are the only ones brave enough to take action and not care about what others say

[sabaister1]

the war on drugs killed many more people directly than yabaa ever did even indirectly ... nuff said.

[mouloudidou]

@sabaister1

Some thaï killed thaï too for small money and kill children also, for do not have witness !! What to do with yaa baa ?

[mouloudidou]

@sabaister1

Please, stay calm.I did'nt made argue with you ok ? How could you know what i know and what i don't know ? Do you know me personnally ? I m gonna thailand every year,2 or 3 months,sometime 6 months since : 20 years,ok ? I got wedding with thaï woman and lived in province,with thaï people too, ok ? And i tell you one more time : Now with yaa baa, thailand become unsecure, and during taksin regn, yes it was better confortable,that's all.

[sabaister1]

@mouloudidou thaksin was a fucking dictator and he is the root of all the problems in Thailand ... I really hope he is gonna die from his cancer...

[sabaister1]

@mouloudidou

I have been in Thailand for the last 18 years , probably longer than you are on this life ..... so please don't just say things that you don't even understand and dont speak about problems about which you don't have any clue by assuming you detain the only truth ..... everybody has the right to a fair trial .... ask to nong flukes grandma...