Thailand Deputy Prime Minister: Drugs to be wiped out in four years

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Drugs to be wiped out in four years
BHANRAVEE TANSUBHAPOL

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Tun Wiwatrung-arun, 36, seated, was arrested on Saturday with 60kg of heroin and a pistol. His accomplice, indetified only as Tima, was shot dead by police. — Kosol Nakachol
Illegal drugs will be permanently eliminated from Thailand within the next four years, retiring Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh forecast yesterday.

The focus of the war on drugs would change to an expanded effort to help neighbouring countries suppress drug production, Gen Chavalit said.

The government would continue to encourage members of the public to inform on drug traffickers. Gen Chavalit said although the government recently announced victory in its two-year battle against illegal drugs, the authorities were keeping a close watch to ensure the problem did not resurface.

Prevention and suppression measures would continue.

''The national centre for combating drugs will reach out to neighbouring countries to help suppress the production bases outside Thailand, because those inside the country have already been eradicated,'' said Gen Chavalit.

This national centre had laid out a strategy covering 13,000 villages and would push for drug-problem management learning centres in every district.

Police drug suppression head, Pol Lt-Gen Watcharapol Prasarnrajchaki, said 174 bars of heroin weighing 60kg were seized in Mae Hong Son on Saturday. One person, Tun Wiwatrung-arun, was arrested in the raid and another shot dead.

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fengtau said:

Illegal drugs will be permanently eliminated from Thailand within the next four years, retiring Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh forecast yesterday.
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yeah right 8(
 
ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

this is a joke right? - so i guess that the deputy prime minister has decided to kick off the april fool's day festivities early in Thailand this year
 
they hope the problem wont "resurface"

they find people with 60kg of heroin

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i think its just propaganda
 
Well, you kinda have to know the situation in Thailand to understand this article. Not too long ago, much of the country's northern areas were covered with poppy fields, and Thailand was a significant exporter of heroin. Then, there was an explosion of yaba (methamphetamine) use, which resulted in quite horrific social effects. (Imagine what would happen if teenagers who have absolutely no knowledge on drugs start smoking meth daily because that what all their friends do, which is what happened). Nowadays, crop substitutution programs have virtually eliminated growth of opium in the north, and yaba is much more expensive and harder to find than before. Of course there are still drugs in Thailand, and of course there will be 4 years and 20 years and 100 years from now, but nowhere near the extent that existed just a few years ago.
 
in other news, a huge comet is heading for Thailand, just about to obliterate the entire country.

Hey , don't blame me, the source of this is just as reliable as this article
 
School children were using Yaba like school children in the US are using E. Its happening, but don't believe shit the Thai government says. Shit 10 years ago you could get meth over the counter. This is all just smoke and mirrors to make the Prime Minister look good. Instead of all the kids smoking yaba, they are just getting fucked by sick ass westerners that like little kids. Than look at the huge alcohol and tobacco problems of this country. If they care about human lives they wouldn't be killing thousands of people in the name of the drug war. Also, Yaba will be back as soon as they let up, when the demand is there so is the supply, and when the risk is lower, so is the prices.
 
PUBLIC SENSES WAR ON DRUGS FUTILE
Campaign Backed, But Confidence Low In Poll
Bangkok Post
March 20, 2005

The majority of people polled in 25 provinces across the country have no confidence in the government's ability to eradicate drugs from Thailand.

In a recent survey by Assumption University's Abac poll, 68% of 5,168 respondents, representing a range of age groups, said they had no confidence in the plan's success, while only 23% thought the campaign would be successful.

However, 74% of respondents supported the campaign to eradicate drugs, saying they were ready to provide information and clues regarding illicit drugs to the authorities.

About half said they were willing to help spread information about the dangers of drugs .

About 62% of respondents wanted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to continue with the campaign against drugs and a similar percentage said the government should take tough action against politicians and state officials found to be involved in the drug trade.

The survey found that more people had become aware of drug problems in their communities this year than last.

The poll also indicated that more people have become involved in the use of speed pills, glue, marijuana, as well as krathom leaves.

However, fewer people were involved in the use of ketamine and opium.

The poll, which was released yesterday, was conducted among different age groups and communities in Bangkok and other provinces between Feb 15 and March 18.

Provinces include Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi, Kanchanaburi, Pathum Thani, Chiang Mai, Uttaradit, Nakhon Sawan, Kamphaeng Phet, Rayong, Chon Buri, Prachin Buri, Nakhon Ratchasima, Si Sa Ket, Nong Khai, Ubon Ratchathani, Yasothon, Khon Kaen, Udon Thani, Roi Et, Sakon Nakhon, Ranong, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Songkhla.

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What a joke. he wishes. individual liberties and demand will outweigh any effort at stopping drugs in any country or universe. who's he kidding? probably just for publicity sakes.
 
Individual liberties? Some country don't care for that...here's an example.

Rude shock at Internet cafe
BY ROYCE CHEAH

PETALING JAYA: Patrons and staff of an Internet cafe here thought it was a robbery when a raiding party burst in on them at midnight on Saturday.

“They were dressed like gangsters. I was afraid and thought we were being mugged,” said customer Jonathan Khoo, 19.

He claimed the seven men and two women in plainclothes were very rude in the way they dealt with the 46 patrons at the Netmaster Internet cafe in Damansara Jaya.

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The closed-circuit television screenshot from the Netmaster Internet Cafe in Damansara Jaya showing a group claiming to be the police collecting ICs from the patrons.

“They did not want to produce any identification and only did so after one patron and his friends questioned them repeatedly.

“But what they produced was a yellowed piece of laminated paper which was difficult to read. They showed it very briefly to the patron and did not explain the purpose of their visit,” he said.

Khoo, a college student, said a scuffle broke out between the patron and members of the raiding party, and the patron was forced to kneel down and then handcuffed for being “difficult”.

One of them also lifted his jacket to reveal his gun tucked in his pants, to convince those at the Internet cafe that they were policemen.

Deputy OCPD Supt Abdul Rahman Ibrahim said the Narcotics Department had conducted an operation that day and that it followed standard procedures. However, he could not confirm if the team that raided the cafe was the one on the field that day.

cafe operator Fum Chen Foo said the “officers” were very rude and demanded that the closed-circuit TV cameras be turned off when they entered.

The “officers” also forced patrons to give them urine samples. “They also wanted to test the urine of two youngsters who were about 10 years old, and only after their fathers' arrival did they release them.”

“Furthermore, my cafe is a strictly no-smoking place and some of these 'officers' were puffing away,” she said.

Khoo said the two-hour ordeal ended when the “officers” finished testing the urine samples and returned the ICs to the patrons.

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Thai PM Revives Deadly War on Drugs
April 11, 2005

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,undaunted by an avalanche of criticism after more than 2,500people were killed in his first war on drugs in 2003, launcheda third one on Monday, vowing to wipe out the trade.

"As long as I am still the prime minister, I will not allownarcotic drugs to return," Thaksin told 1,000 drug bustingofficers and volunteers at police headquarters in Bangkok as helaunched the three-month campaign.

The 10-month war on drug in 2003, which Thai and foreignsay involved police assassinating suspects, was voted the mostsuccessful policy of Thaksin's first term and helped him winanother landslide victory in February.

Thaksin launched the second war last October promising"serious actions" against drug bosses and measures to preventyouths falling prey to drug dealers.

The government has issued no statistics on the second waron drugs, aimed at dealers of methamphetamines, known in Thaias "ya ba," or crazy medicine, and made in jungle laboratoriesin Myanmar.

The three-month 2005 campaign would focus on majorproducers along the borders with Cambodia and Laos, areas towhich they moved from the Myanmar border, and small dealerspeddling in bars and clubs, Thaksin said.

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When we implement a policy that may bring 3,000 to 4,000 bodies, we will do it

Thailand PM targets drug dealers
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, 8 February, 2008
Mr Samak would not set a target for how many people might die
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is planning to revive a controversial anti-drugs campaign which reportedly killed 2,500 people.

Mr Samak, elected in December polls, promised a decisive, and quite possibly bloody campaign against drug dealers.
He said he would use the same ruthless tactics as his political patron and predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006.
"I will not set a target for how many people should die," said Mr Samak.
"We will pursue a suppression campaign rigorously. There will be consequences."

Extra-judicial killings
While Mr Thaksin's 2003-2004 campaign enjoyed popular support and did, briefly, curb Thailand's rising drug problem, it resulted in some 2,500 deaths.
Human rights groups accused police of extra-judicial killings, saying many of the dead were later proved to have been innocent.

Mr Thaksin always denied any wrongdoing.

A government investigation into the drugs war, launched after Mr Thaksin was deposed, concluded there was no evidence to take legal action against the former premier for the deaths.
Mr Samak defended both Mr Thaksin and the police, saying the drug-dealers had turned on each other.
"The drug traffickers were killing each other so that authorities would not be able to question them and track down their big bosses," he told reporters on Friday.
"If they were innocent, why were they killed?"

Methamphetamines
On Wednesday, Thai Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said the new campaign would go ahead, even if thousands had to die.
A Thai policeman stands next to a haul of methamphetamine haul in 2003
Police were accused of extra-judicial killings in the 2003 crackdown
"When we implement a policy that may bring 3,000 to 4,000 bodies, we will do it," said Mr Chalerm, himself a former police captain.
The target of the new drugs crackdown is the illegal methamphetamines industry.
Many of the drugs are made in neighbouring Burma, and smuggled into Thailand and beyond, says the BBC's Andrew Harding in Bangkok.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7260127.stm
 
Isn't this one of the places where they execute people for drug crimes? If they will lop your dome off for selling dope, but people are still doing it all over, doesn't it kinda tell you that people are going to keep getting high no matter what? If the fear of losing your head doesn't stop people, nothing will. Our govt should pay attention to that fact and give it up.
 
The thai police are all corrupt anyway its just getting more expensive to pay them off.

Still plenty of drugs in the land of smiles though ;).
 
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