Myanmar Burns confiscated medicines worth about $ 300 million

Yangon, Myanmar – Officials said nearly $ 300 million of illegal drugs that were destroyed in the main cities of Myanmar on Thursday to celebrate the annual international day against drug use and illegal trafficking.

Drug burning came nearly a month UN experts warned against Unprecedented levels of methamphetamine and trafficking from the Golden Triangle area in Southeast Asia and the Eastern Shan state in Myanmar in particular.

The country has always been a major source of illegal drugs allocated to east and East Asia, despite the repeated efforts of clearance. It was described by the United Nations Agency in 2023 The largest Opion producer in the world.

In the largest city in the country, Yangon, a huge pile of medicines worth more than $ 117 million in an amazing fire.

The destroyed drugs included opium, heroin, metamafitamine, marijuana, ketamine, stimulant known as ice or crystal metallic, and Yangon police. General Sin Lewin said in a speech at the drug burning ceremony.

Similar events also occurred in the second largest city in Mandalay in the country, and in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State in Minanmar East, all areas nearby medications are produced.

Police official from the capital, Naybito, told Associated Press that the burning materials in three locations worth $ 297.95 million. The official spoke, provided that his identity is not disclosed because the information has not been publicly announced.

Myanmar has a long history of drug production related to political and economic insecurity caused by decades of armed conflict.

East Myanmar is part of the famous golden triangle, where the borders of Myanmar, Los and Thailand meet. Opion and heroin production has flourished historically there, due to chaos in the border areas in which the central government in Myanmar managed to exercise only the minimum control over the various ethnic minority militias, some of which are partners in the drug trade.

The United Nations Drugs and Crime Office said in a report in May that the political crisis throughout the country after the military seizure in 2021 – which led to what has now become a civil war – has turbine growth in metamafitamine deals.

This has increased drug flow “not only across East and Southeast Asia, but also increasingly to South Asia, especially northeast of India,” the report said.

Drugs are increasingly smuggled from Myanmar to Cambodia, most of them through Laos, as well as through marine roads “linking Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, with Sabah in Malaysia as a main transit center.”