Mountain Drug Running - Kyrgyzstan

July 1996
The old Silk road through Central Asia has become a new narcotics highway.

Drug cargoes pass from Afghanistan through Kyrgyzstan's spectacular mountain peaks on their way to Russia and Europe. Despite the best efforts of the UNDCP and the Russian military, the problem gets worse. At a checkpoint 4000 metres above sea level, soldiers search truck engines and petrol tanks. Their trained dogs suffer first from altitude sickness and then addiction. Higher in the mountains, the tracks cannot be policed. Here, destitute villagers haul sacks of opium across the snow to earn money for their families. A young trader in prison for 15 years says quietly, "I feel very bad and I don't think that I will ever get over this mistake." Addiction and drug related crime are also rising rapidly. In Bishkek, an armed police raid exposes a dealer with needle marks up his arm. The local hospital treats a 20 year old addict, pumped full of sedatives. He dreams of "an enormous syringe flying in my head". Report on the devastation drugs can bring to a small, impoverished country.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

Category:

News & Politics

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• Kyrgyzstan
• Silk
• Road
• Asia
• Drug
• cargoes
• opium
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[josemadv]

we need subtitles!!

[stezii]

if nobody would want the drug, they wouldnt do it. so it is not their mistake, ti is normal business for them. and WE should solve it on our side at the first place.

[Samyaza69]

I've been in Kyrgyzstan few years ago and smoked a lot of opium in there! Is a such a nice place to be! People are very good, don't believe the terrorist stories, all the people in there are quite peaceful! Is a nobody land! I felt very free!

[denisasitis]

SUBTITLES! So many of your films are like this. Who want to watch someone talk for 5 minutes and not know what their saying?

[D1lk]

@withershins: US and selected allies (one day including a NATO-trained Afghan military) will occupy most of the countries of Eurasia. Strategists see this as an extension of the Middle East. So Western power will be consolidated there and in North Africa before completing the take-over of the former Russian Empire.

Allegedly there are already secret US airbases in Turkmenistan, regular military flights from Seattle and Alaska over the pole to Central Asia, and the huge airbase in Kyrgyzstan.

[wiithershiins]

@D1lk :( whats going to happen now

[wiithershiins]

@AnotherCompartment well, the recent epidemics in russia, afghanistan, pakistan, kyrgyzstan, etc. are part of a western tradition of destroying the fabric of society by manipulating opium markets. look at the US and its manipulation southeast asia's opium trade in the 20th century, or the opium wars in china. for me, it is very difficult to distinguish illegal power centers from legal ones.

[TurquoiseJeep11]

@josemadv FUCK YEAH...I have no clue why the hell we can't here what the people are saying...I think that somehow what they're saying is somewhat important, you know?

[amit79ful]

@pakdefender26 an illegitimate creation of this planet LoL talking to a civilised world justifying there uncivilised world.

[pakdefender26]

you are the reason of everyshit . you fucking indians.

[pakdefender26]

you are the reason of everyshit . you fucking indians.



[cyberhuninvan]

For non-ruski speakers, subs would help.

Good stuff - keep it coming.