JPRS ID: 10489 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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JPRS L/ 10489
3 May 1982
Wo~ldwide R~ orfi
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NARCOTI~CS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 2~0/82)
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JPRS L/10489
3 1~ay 1982
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROrJS DRUGS
(~ouo 2o/t321
CONTENTS
ASIA
AUSTRALIA
Figures Show 1980 Cannabis Confiscatic~n on 26 Plantations
tTHE AGE, 6 Mar 82) 1
Drug Laws Reassessed; Marihuana Legalization Opposed
(Various sources, various dates) 2
` Report Recommendations
Officials' Opposition, by Brian Hill
Briefs
Heroin Charges 4
HONG KONG
Marihuana Use Increasing Among 'Trendy' Middle Class
(Stephen Clark; SOUTl~ CHINA MORNING POST, 26 Mar 82) 5
Briefs
Heroin Traffickers Jailed 7
~ Thai Co�rier Sentenced 7
INDIA
Widespread Drug Addiction in Punjab Surveyed
(INDIA TODAY, 15 Apr 82) 8
PAKISTAN
Brief.s
Danish Charas Smugglers Arrested 12
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THAILAND
- Khun Sa Seeks Negotiations With RTG
(Thongprai Phan~aeng; yfATICHON, 16 Mar 82) 13
Colum.nist: Heroin Refining Continues Despite Ban Hin Taek
(Tamoloy BAN MUANG, 23 Mar 82) 17
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Drug Trafficking Increase Reported
(LA NACION, 19 Mar 82) 20
BAHAMAS
- Briefs
rlar~huana Boat Seizure 22
BRAZIL
_ Pure Cocaine, Weapons Seized in Rio de Janeiro
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 19 Mar 82) 23
Sao Paulo Police Officer Charged With Involvement With
Traffickers
(0 GLOBO, 16 Mar 82) 25
Briefs
Cocaine, Arms Seized 27
Marihuana Seized in Mato Grosso 27
COLOMBIA
Details on Record Cocaine Shipment to U,S.
(Fabio Castillo; EL ESPECTADOR, 22 Mar 82) 28
Cocaine Laboratory, Shipment Seized
(EL TIEMPO, 13 Mar 82) 32
Briefs
Cocaine Plantations, Laboratories Uncovered � 35
MF.XICO
Colombia-U.S. Cocaine Shipment
(Enriqtie Rivas Ornelas; EXCEI.SIOR, 27 Mar 82) 36
Six Major Drug Traffickers Arrested in Michoacan
(Rafael Medina; EXCELSIOR, 21 Jan 82) 37
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Briefs
Two Drug Laboratories Uncovered 38
Much Sought Dealer Arrested 38
Sinaloa Poppy Fields Burned 39
Drug Seizures, Arrests 39
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
_ Briefs
Drug Seizure in Tehran 40
Hashish, Opium Seizure 40
Bandar 'Abbas Drug Find 40
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Infiltration of Drugs Into Townships Becoming Uncontrollable
(Editorial; SOWF.TAN, 12 Mar 82) 41
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AUSTRALIA
FIGURES SHnW 1980 CANNABIS CON.FISCATIJN ON 26 PLANTATIONS
Melbourne THE AGE in Enc~~.ish 6 i4ar 82 p 4
[TextJ ~Australian golice'dug up ~ore cantly lower than that in four
~than 2.4 tonnes of cannabi3 other States, South Australia,
fQUnd growing on 26 plant- . Queensl~rid, Tasmania ttnd Naw
South, Wales. '
ations in' 1980, according to ~e welght of crops found fs o!
the latest available police undrled product. Once drled
statistics. . for use, the csnnabi~ is , many
A confidential Federal '~poIIce times r lighter and much' more
report shows ttiat State and Fede- valua~ble on.a weight bas~s.'
ral police around Austtalla',un- police sources sa(d yesterday
covered nearly 10 hectares ''de- � that the conservative estimate ot
yoted_ to the crop in 1980. ' the market price for domestically
Police believe the true extent �g~~ cennabis in ]980 was $i
of ~ cannabis growing in AwsNalla ' a gram wholesale to syndicated
is considerably bigg~r thatf ihey dealers nnd $1.50 te $2 a gram
have managed to detect, :,��a. for street retail. �
Increases in the number' and Howtve~, a conslderable pre-
stze of operations detected last
year compared with those found ~mium is pald for imported concen-
in 1980 indicated cannabis farm- ~trated forms of cannabis. Police
ing is flourishing. figures for 1980 show that import- .
The 1980 figures show, how- ed cannabis oil fetched a street
ever, that the scale of operations price of $30 to ~50 for half a
� detected in Victoria is signifi- gram.
CANNABIS FARMINQ IN AUSTRALIA
pOLICE SEIZURE8.IM 1880 .
TOTAI YNONIEO Ma OF ~EO/lt
M~, NtCTAIItt TOTAI AIIEiEDIY
lTAT[ tUU1TAT10Nt OF CAMMAti~ M. 0! ?IAMTi NIIOMT (Iy) IMYOlYEO
IttN ~MI
I~~SW 8 .303 12,106 618.1 11
vic. 3 .242 3,480 8~7 3
nld. 4 ~.144 21,49d 1048.9 a
8A 7 8.d14 86,380 710.6 20
WA 1 ,.A3t1 300 2.0 2
t+uau .Mw ,
Tes. 3 .e07 . 0,170 113.4 ~ 4
(+~~.q1 wr)
Totai. 28. 9.840 108,837 2403~d 46
No, ~ioe. lor A T, Nf
louror AuHnlun ~Mxd ~oUa oonfld~ndd ~ooiim~na.
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AUSTRALIA
DRUG L11WS REASSESSED; MARIJUANA LEGALIZt~TION OPPOSED
Report Recommendations
Brisbane THE COURIEI2-MAIL in Bnglish 6 Mar 82 p 3
[Text] CANBERRA--A call by a group of prominent Australians for the legalisa-
tion of marihuana has put pressure on the Federal Government and the community
to reassess drug laws and attitudes.
' The group has sparked public debate in penalties. '
an effort to get people to face up to It called for leglslation sfmil~.r to the
society's double standards concerning the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act in Brltain
use of marihuana as opposed to alcohol and - to be Sntroduced, wiping a11 criminai
cigarettes. records for possession and use.
It also is anxious to focus attention on It recommended that advertistng be re-
the ina~bility of present laws to cope with stricted and health warnings and age limits
flourishin~ criminal syndicates and police lmposed. Driving under the influence of the ,
corruption. drug would be treated as severely as drlnk-
The grauP's recommendatfons were con- driving.
tained in a discussion paper an alcohol, On alcohol abuse, the teport said studies
cannabis and heroi~i sponsored by the. Aus- should be undertaken into "at risk" groups,
tralian Foundation on Alcoholism and Drug such as ~ournalists and Aboriglnals.
Dependence. On heroin, the committee endorsed some
The report was distributed last Monday medical use, parttcularly for ha,;d-core ad-
, for release thfs Monday, but the embargo dicts dependent on crime syndicates.
� ~vas broken S~esterday by thc Sydney~ Tele- Although the recomrrendations repre-
graph - Uart of Mr Itupert D4urdoch's sented a consensus view, Senator Walters
Nc�~s Ltd organisation. dissociated herself from the call for legal-
The best-known and most inlluential isation of cannabis and thA setting up of a
~members ot the committee included the Sovernment monopoly.
The report said the impllcatYons of mari-
Law Reform Commission cl~airman, Mr Jus- huana use were unknown, but it believed
t.ice Kirby, Tasmanian Liberal Senator the 3rug possibly was less harmiul than al-
Shirie~ �Walters, the Australian Institute of cohol and tobacco on the basis of present
Criminolo~Y assistant director Mr l~avid medical evidence. �
Biles, and a tormer Queenstand Police
Commissioner, Mr R.ay Whitrod. Senator Walters, who 1s the Benate
The group recommended that indtviduals standing commi6tee on social wslfare chair-
should be allowed to grow marihuana for man, safd she did not aBree with the recom-
t�I~etr owii use, but that all other production ' mendation on marihuana,
be prohibited. It called on the government
to control manufacture ~.nd distributlon to in Brisbanc, the Australfan SvIedical As-
cnsure a stancfard and untform qunlttY. aociation GZueensland presldent, Professor
Prices would bo set ]ow enough to dis- Tess Brophy, safd ahe. would not support a
courago U1nck mnrket acttvitiPS, huE not ao move to legaliso m~rihuana.
lo~v as to boost s11es and increase usc. ~~We have enough problems assoctated
The group sugqested that the Com- with tlie abuse of alcohol and smoktng
monwealth Scientific and Industrfnl Re- ~vilhout compoundinq the problems associ-
search Organisation would be an appro- lted wi~h mnrihunna nnd its potential for
prtate body to carry out a feasibillty study harm," she said. '�I think tlus legalisation
on a government monopoly. call is a mis~utded move.
The report nlso urged the Qovernm~nt "il4arihuana has been medically proven to
- to decriminailse immedfately the poasa- have tl~e �polential for braln damage with
sion and use of marihuana and removo past its continued use."
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The Mothers Against Drugs president,
_ Mrs Marie-Ann Grosskreutz, sald her group
would lobby agalnst any plans to legalise
the drug. .
"The legalisation ~of marihuana would
not do anything about the problems associ-
ated with the drug;' she said. "I would
questlon the abitity of those who have
called for legalisation.
"We have enough hassles with . smokes �
and alcohol without inflicting a third prob-
lem on society."
Officials' Opposition
Canberra THE WEEKEND AUSTRAI,IAN in English 6-7 Mar �i2 p 2'
[Article by Brian Fiill]
[ExcerptJ I~tARIJU~INA will remain ernment would vlgorously
illegal - at least in the fore- opnose any relaXation of the
drug laws.
seeable fUtur~. But the leader oi the Aust-
T~vo fedcral Ministers, the ralian Democrats, Senator
Attortiey-Gr,neral, Senator C1Upp, said hc intended to in-
- Durack, and the Ministcr tor troduce a private member's
Health, Mr MacKcilar, ycster- biil to support the main ele- ,
day re~ected a report recom- ments of the committee's re-
mending legalisatioii of the port. �
drug Uy a committee of tl~e Mr David Biles, a committee
Australian Foundation on Al-. member and an assistant di-
cohotlsm and Drug Depend- rector of the Australian Insti-
ence. tute of Criminology, Canberra,
Senator Durack said 11is o~~zi said yesterday his coileagues
~~icw and that of the Govern- on the convnittee believed
ment .H�as "completely oppos- that possession, use and home
cd" to any movc to; legalise cultivation of mariJuana
marijuana. should be legal "Just tl~e same
Mr MacKellar said tie a�ould as beer" but that~all other pro-
need "a lot of conviiicing",be- duction, apart from that by
fore agreeiiig tliat tl~e posses- the CSIRO, sliould be banned.
sion and privatc cultivation of ~Under the committee's gui-
� marijuana should be decri- delines, which are not an offi-
minalised. cial vlew of the AFADD. ad-
Their view�s were echoed by vertising would be restricted
other governinent NtPs and and health ~varningS and age
t1~e Vtctorian Premicr, Mr llmits would be imposed.
Tl~ompson, who said his Gov-
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AUSTRALIA
`
BRIEFS
HEROIN CHAEtGES--A man allegedly found in possession of heroin with a street
valtie of $700,d00 appeared in Melbourn.e Magistrates Court yesterday. Brian
Carl Hansen, 34, unemployed, of London Street, Bentleigh, appeared on one
charge of trafficking heroin, one charge of possessing heroin and one charge .
of conspiracy to sell heroin. [Melbourne THE AGE in English 6 Mar 82 p 3]
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HONG KONG
MARINUANA USE INCREASING AMONG 'TRENDY' MIDDLE CLASS
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 26 Mar 82 p 18
[Article by Stephen Clark]
[Text ] Marijuana is becoming Purpose of unlawFul crafCck-
the "in-thing" in Hong-, ~~B�
kong, but mostly among Earlier this month, cus-
the "trendy" middle-class, toms offcials madc their big-
according to a senipr po- gest haul of marijuana sincc
lice narcotics of~cer. 1975 when they discovered
16kg of the drug - worth
Years after the boom in around 51.6 million on the
poc-smoking in America and streets in unclaimed air
Britain, Hongkong is cargoatKaiTakairport.
cetching-on - or rather Officials believed the drug
turning�on - to the infamous was for local consumption
weed. and would have been distrib-
And some people are aim- uted mainly to Filipinos and
ing at self-sufficiency, ~row- Europeans, but also to some
= ing their own mari~uana Chinese who had been intro-
plants in their gardens m duced to pot smoking when
rural areas or on verandahs of living or studying abroad.
~heir urban tlats. Hongkong customs offi-
Marijuana, cannabis, pot, cials and police have enjoyed
hash, wecd - call it what you remarkable success recently
will - has becn evident in in their fight against heroin
Hongkong for years. traffickero, with several large
But police and customs seizures pushing up the street
authorities believe that, as the price of the drug.
� society herc becomes more
afflucnt, more and more peo- Aut have the recent sei-
ple, both European and Chi- zures resulted in people turn-
nese, are trying out the drug ~ng to softer drugs?
because it has become
"trendy." Supcrintendent Keith
Although the police do not Tidey, of the Narcotics Bu-
see marijuana as a serious reau, thinks not. .
threat in Hongkong, com� "In my exper:ence, local
pared with the problems Chinese people on heroin do
caused by heroin, thcy and not go on to marijuana. They
the courts still takc a serious are mare likefy to pay the
view of offences involving the extra or go on to methadone
drug. (a heroin substitute used to
Marijuana is still classi� wean addicts off heroin) for
fied as a dangcrous drug, maintenance.
along with hcroin, and pcople "By tradition, drug abuse
found guilty of using, grow- among the Chinese has in-
ing, or trafficking in thc drug volved opium or opiurlt deriv-
- are liablc to hcavy scntenccs. atives. They are not tradition-
Only last wcck, two pcoplc ally marijuana smokers. That
wcrc each sentcnccd to two is i Western inlluence."
ycarx in prixon for thc posscs� is more of a tradition in
sion of marijuana for thc
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othcr countries in the region, an intoxicant has raised vari- view of such offenccs com-
such as the Philippines or ous medicai and social qucs- pared with offences involving
Thailand, where marijuana tions, many of which are heroin or opium.
plants grow naturally. under continuing scicntifc "Although the maximum
Supt Tidey said that inveuigation. penalt~ is high, the range of
"casual abuse" of marijuana There has alrcady been a activities covered by the Dan-
is on the increase in Hong- great deal of conllictir,g evi- . gerous Drugs Ordinance is so
kon dence from many diffcrent W~de that a clear distinction
B�
lt is rcadily available in studies about the lon~-term has to be drawn regarding the
certain areas, usually being physical effects on the bady relative seriousness of di[fer-
distributed througli night- from persistent use of mari� entoffences.
clubs and discos or at parties., juana. Supt Tidey agreed that
But, he added, pot smok- Such use docs not, how- sentences tended to reflect
ing is more of a"middle or ever, make a person physical- that the courts took a lesser
middle-upper-class" preoccu- ~y dependent, nor does the view of marijuana offences.
pation. regular user suffcr extreme "Addiction to heroin is
physical discomfort upon obviously much more serious
"A lot of fashionablc peo- wichdrawal such as that as-
plc smoke it because it is the sociated with the use of o i- ~han persistent use of mari-
trcndy thing to do. a~~s P juana,' he said.
"It is mostl used b ex- Dut, he added, there was
Y Y But Supt Tidcy pointed no indication of any relaxa-
patriatcs or English-speaking out that for many heroin ad- tion of the legislation regard-
Chinesc who mix a lot with dicts, marijuana was an early ing the use of marijuana in
the American or Europcan step on the road to drug the foreseeable future.
contingcnts." abuse.
Aftcr the big marijuana This was confirmed by a
haul this month, one customs "There ic no doubt that a spokesman for the Legal De-
officer said: "This soft drug is lot of people go on from mari- partment who said therr, was
mainly for more well-off co- juana to harder drugs," hc absolutely nothing in lhe
plc for usc at wild parties.P said, pipcline" on this matter.
"For that very reason it is On Thursday last week, at
But hc thought that thc still considercd a dangcrous Victoria' District Court,
increasing Filipino population drug." Judge Wong sentenced a cou-
hcrc might also have addcd to
a growing demand for the Under the Dangerous ple to two years' imprison-
dru Drugs Ordinance, trafticking ment each after they were
g' in or the manufacturc of found ~suilty of possessing
Supt Tidey said lhe ege "dangerous drugs" carrics a dangerous drugs (1,112.10
group of most of Hongkong's maximum pcnalty of lifc im- grams of cannabis) for
mari~uana users was "late ~risonment and/or a SS mil- unlawfultrafficking.
teens to mid-thirties." Thc lion finc. The couple, both in their
drug still has a lot of sceial 30s and living in Bowen
- attraction, he added, for Possession of dangcrous
man ~'a eing teena ers of dru~s for "unlawful traffick- Road, Mid-Levels,. also re-
~ g g ing' carrics thc samc pcnalty, ccived other lesser prison sen-
around 30" who perhaps frst tcnces to run concurrently for.
started usin mari uana in While thc maximum pcnalty
g ~ for posscssing dangc~ous ' various Icsstr drug offenCes.
Europe or America in the late drugs for personal consump- Supt Tidey said that mari-
1960s or 1970s. tion is three yeurs and/or a juana is a problem in Hong-
"Somc people are no SI0,000 fine. kong "simply because it's
doubt trying to grow their The maximum pcnalty fon c~re." .
own in their gardens or even cultivation of cannabis plants But, he added: "It's not a
on the verandahs of their is 15 years in prison and/or a serious problem for the com-
urban tlats. Hut there is no fine of $100,000. munity as a whole in the same
indication of any largc-scalc A legal source said that, N'ayasheroin.
commcrcial grow~ng of mari- although the courts here still "Pot smokin~ is more of a
juana in F~ongkong. take a firm stand on offcnccs trend that's hit Hongkong .
"Thc marijuana that is involving marijuana, "thc ju- rather late. lt may increase
grown hcrc in bit~ :tnd picccs diciary is not stupid." for a while, but it won't refich
is gcncrally for thc growcr's HC added; "In England the stages it reached in the
own consumption." and, in my view, herc too, the States and Btitain 10 to I S
Thc usc of marijuana as courts tcnd to Iakc a lesscr' yeara ago."
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HONG KONG
BRIEFS
HEROIN TRAFFICKERS JAILED--Two men were yesterday sentenced to jail in the
High Court for dangerous druqs offences. Sentencing Hui Wing-cheong (32), a
clerk, to 18 years and Sze Pui-chau (30), a businessman, to 15 years, Mr Com-
missioner Davies said the case F~as one of the most serious yet to come before
the courts. The quantity of drugs seized--21.53 kg of heroin base--was said
by senior Crown counsel Colin White to be enough to supply Hongkong's addicts
for 3-1/2 days. The drugs were worth $9.5 million. Sze and Hui were fr~und
guilty by a jury of possessing the drugs for unlawful trafficking. Hui was
also convicted of permitting a warehouse in Tsat Tse Mui Road, North Point,
of which he was the tenant, to be used for storage of the drugs. The cour.�L
had been told that police kept surveillance on the warehouse on the night of
August 24. The next morning Sze arrived in a car and removed two paper boxes
from the warehouse. He then drove to Sh~: Kuk Street where he was intercepted
by the police who found in the boxes 48 packets of heroin base, each weighing
slightly under one pound. Sze told the police that he had been asked by Hui
to pick up the boxes at his warehouse. The car used for transporting the
, drugs had been reported stolen and it bore a false registration plate. On
August 29, Hui surrendered himself to the police. [ExcerptJ [Hong Kong SOUTH
CHINA MORNING POST in English 26 Mar 82 p 24]
THAI COURIER SENTENCED--A Thai woman who tried to smuggle $600,000 worth of
dangerous drugs into Hongl:ong by concealing them in a tropical fruit, was yes-
terday sentenced to six years' imprisonment. Sae Lim Siamhiang (35) pleaded
guilty before P4r Justice Barnes in the High Court to possessing 1.344 kilos
of heroin mixture for unlawful trafficking. Crown counsel G.A. Andree-Wiltens
~ said Siamhiang arrived from Bangkok on September 8 and appeared to be nervous
and ill at ease when she took her luggaqe, which included a plastic carrier
containing some rambutans, to customs for inspection. Customs officers exam-
ined the f.ruit and found some of them had been hollowed out, small packets of
dangerous drugs inserted into them and then stitched back together with fine
red cotton thread. Siamhiang admitted that she knew the fruit contained dan-
gerous drugs and that she had been paid $3,000 for carrying them. [Excerpt)
[Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORPdING POST in English 31 Mar 82 p 18]
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INDIA
WIDESPREAD DRUG ADDICTION IN PUNJAB SURVEYED
New Delhi INDIA TODAY in English 15 Apr 82 pp 80-83
(Text~ HE emerald ,aeen wheat fields s[- local supplier. Mahinder Sin�h, the priest of
r~tched for milzs, justifyin� the the village gurudwara (Sikh Temple) was
~vords on a hoarding zt the bor� ~rrested and tablets were reco~ered from
der-"Punjab. ~anary of' [n~fia". their hiding place-allegedl~�. accordinz to
Tu~ked away deep in thr incerior, uncharted the vitlagers, under the cloth covering the
excep[ perhaps on a detail~i map ul' district holv book in the gurudwara. But two munths
Bhatinda. lay village Khillan. population: after the incident ~fahinder Sin�h was back
I,ZUU. Buc despite the surt'a~e tranyuilluy, ir hhillan where he also functions as a ruid
Khillan aa~ a village in eurmoil. The reason:
Kh~ilan has been blitzed by the menact ~~f � Q ADOIC7 BELT
drug ~~idiction. In cht I~s~ ~is mon[h~ eight
men ha~e died due to drug~. ~ M ~ N 4 C H AL
Un ~tarch I~. whtn i~~t.> roo.~Y ~isited PG K I 5? 0 N
the ~illa~e. the mtn uf Khillan were mourn-
in~ the Jeath uf y~et ~noih~r victim. l; nder ~
the influence of a t~biet I~xally kno�~n .~s ;~u
numbr~ inumber I~X)1 tht m.in had fallrn inco . ~
a;ewer an~i. txing too ~irugged to lift h~s ~
head out ut' ~he water. had drowned. ~,,,,~.,a,. ,~~JH~AS
Villa~ers call the drug ~uu numbri bc� ~ f..", ~
cause that weight- l00 milli�rams-is stam- ~~�~ato~ ~
ped on ~he tablet. The actual drug may 5a~~,~,
be zither sovenal or seconal, both bar- ~ti ~
- biturates. ~tany other types of intoxica[ing ( � ~ ~,,,~a, ~
,rnthenc drugs are also ~old-some of them ~
morphine�based, others are amphetamines ;
or che methaqualune-based ~tandrzx. now� HARYpNA
ille�allv manufactured and stamped "Bx" or ,,,,,.,,,,,Y
"Sr". These dru�s are compara[i~el~~ recent
a~,.ii~ons cu the tradiuonally use~i. plant�
~C~I~c(~ ~N$S such a's poppy-husk. upium. (traditional da:tor~. (The ntarrst health ren-
hashish. marijuana and Jh~ruru. tre is three km away.) When i~~i.+ r~~o.~t
T'echnic~lly Accidental: The viilage met him in his room ,~djacent to the ;uru-
chuwkidar reported the Srath in thr tehsil dwara, medic:ine bottles stiU cluttered the
~~adyuarters at ~tansa and it wa5 zntere~ shelves. He hesitated to answer sny dircc~
in the register as "death by ~cciden[" The question. "l am here to help others," ht said .
entry was tzchnically ~orre~:t and the su- (n another v~llage. Bangi. '_5 km I'rom
thonties were ,:ontent ~o !eave it ~t :hat. The Bhatinda, drug-rela~ed deaths have rcnche~i
. eighih ~~cum.who died ~n [he lasc a�eek oF zp~demic proponions-~8 in the last ;:ear
Januar~:. h:~d already ~aused tnou~h rumpli- ~~one. Said a resident, Sajjan 5in~h. an rx-
::,~iuns. Then it had brrn una~o~Jabiy ne~:e- Indian National :~rmy havil~iar. "lt'>;ad to
;sary to tnter ehe cause oF ~feath .~s druu see young men die because uF these ~famn
o~trdose which called toc puli~e zct:on. The In yet another village near the
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Punjab-Haryana border, Nikki. an eigh[- but. thank God. 1 haven't seen heroin ad-
year-old girl had died under the intiuence of d~cts ~et " '
drugs. As an infant, her ever-busy mother
- frequently gave her opium to keep hcr yuiet HE problem is incredsing." confirms
an~' she slmply grew up with the hahit. Sume Bhatinda Senior Superintendent oC
time ago her I 5-year-old brother, hooked on Poi~ce G.S. Bhullar. 'The number of
suu numbri, introduced her to the tablets. cases he has been able to register are indica-
On the day of her death she had wandered ti~e of the amount of drug-running in the
into thr. courtYard of her house where tw~~ area. Last year 1.386 drug carriers w�ere
- buffaloes were tighting and was caughr ?+rr_ arrested and for 198~ his tally has already
ween them, su(Tering a massive blow -~~e reached This he admiu is only a fracuon
head. She was carried into the huuse still of ~e�hai is eoing on. "With only ?0 police-
alive but to relieve che D~in her family ~ave men for c~en~ unit of about 5(~ villages how~
h~r more iahle~s and she died. The 7,000 clo~e a wa[ch can they~ keep?" he asks.
inh~hitants of hrr vill~ge �ere stunned Uut .4c:c:ording to E'~hullar. drugs come inio Pun-
e~en this tr~gtdy did not persuadt her iab from three sides: Nepal. Pakistan and
hrothe~ to kick the habit- he simply can't. Rajasthan. Although heroin has heen inter-
l'nnrurdcd: Nikki's death a�as not re- cep~ed coming from Pakistan it is not meant
rixdcd a> n dru~-rclated dcath and there for ihe local market-at least not so far.
would hr many uther such cases whose full .~s BhuUar sees it, the crux of the
circum~tances w�ill never be entered in any prohlem is the mushrooming number uf
o(Ticial register. As a result. neither the state rcg~scered medical praccitioners (tt.Hps). E~-
nor the Ccntral Government views the pro- plamed Dr Raj Kumar Sin�la. past pre-
blem of rural drug abuse seriously. The i~dent of the Punjab ~teciical Asscxiation
e~ITicial attitude is "it can't happen here". But who prsctices in Bhatinda: "These tt~~Ps
scvcral swdies over the Past five years reveal have usually worked with real dators for a
that thc threat is not only real but growing. few months learning how to give injrctions
Studies by Dr Divendra ~lohan of the All and acquiririg 1 rudimentary knowledge of
India lnstitute of Medical Sciences, 'Vew drugs. They get themselves rertified as R~tps
Delhi. and Dr Gurmeet Singh of ~ledical and then ;o uFtn their own '~iispensaries' in
Collcge. Patiala, have probed the consum- the ~illages. Thev zre quacks and selline
~tion ~atterns of alcohol, opium, bar- these drues is chtir major ~ource ot pront."
biturates and cannabis in the region. ~I'o make an even bi�~er pretic otF ~he
Among the 1? districts of Punjab, the trade the drug pedd~ars adul[erate thtir
distncu Sangrur. Bhatinda, Faridkot and wares. Said J.R. Gupta. a small-town che-
Ferozcpur are know�n as the "addiction mist. "The iuppliers have started to adul-
txlt". In Dr Gurmee; Singh's 1977 study he terate 3nd dupli~ate .?II torms ut drues and
noted that althouch Punjab had one of the e~~en opium." Bournvita's dark-brow~n col-
lowest cnme rates-84.5 per 10.000 popu- our makes it the ~deal ad.iiti~e to ,tret~h
lauon as compared to the all-lndia average opium and an imi[ation opium is ma~1e by
oC 17.3-it recorded 7,580 offences under the mixing scr}~chnine Is deadl} ~~n~i
Opium Act. approximately 7U per cent of the barbiturates into 1 b15C of burnt ~agge~;
total otTences in the entire countr~~. His "What we ~old to kill racs is now~ be~ng used
;un�e} shoNed that 3U per cent of the to kill peoplt." hz iaid.
~+c~~ulatian studied used drugs for non- The iake opium presents another
m~diral ~urposes. problem-as the polic~ commented. "How
The problem is increasing. "The use of can the fellow selling poisoned jaggery be
intoxuan~s has increased by I W per cent in arrested under the Opium Act?" The sa-
the last decade." he said �'hat has Smgh mples tr.ou ron~�r collected from the area
gra~~el~ w�orried is the increased use oi bar- for leboratorv analysis pro~ed the su~pic~on
biturates. "Barbiturates are a cheap com- of adulteration: the opium was only X) per
~+ound i?l) paisa ~er tablet as comp3red to Rs cent pure: the two t~~pes o( tablets knoH�n
; to lU for ~ hottle of country liquon and as "Bx" and "white escort" contained mor-
~ ith ~he risine cos~ ot opium. barbicuracesare phine and the tablet marked "seconal" was
iikel~ tr rrr~ace hc~~h ihose ~ntaxicants. E~�en just chalk But the stufl ~as cheap: 10 grams
nc~H~tu~lec~lltheiablets.cukki.sJwrrahldry of opium rost Rs ?U and IS tablets were
~iyuon." He is also startin~ ~o ~e~ cases of ~,urrhased fnr Rs also ~ndicating the easy
~+eupi~ addicted to injected drues. chiefly availabiliry of drugs.
~+c~hadine an~i morphine. "V4e know Iran pattern Of Use: Villagets described the
r~~ cnen~;ed a;hift from op~um to heroin. lf prevalent patterns of use. A typical opium
hrr(Ni a. rrm~i~sl ;m it t~i~
- mlcrwi�~redsrrc~ruluddic~sin Bhatindudis- (~mil~ dr.rair~ o~cr hi~ h~hn but "Ihc)
tric;. Tlicir rontmen?s ievea! ~t~hal drugs have ~i~�en up hope uf reforming me."
rc,sr these rndiridual.s M terms oj ~heir Gurbachan SinQh. 4S, of ~�illage
l~culth,pruduc~h~rn�.andsurinlrelatiunships. Bangi i~ a sm~U furmcr w�ith threc arree
Raj Indcr Sin~h, alias Aaba, 60, of and a famil~ of sia. "~'hen 1 was ~c~unc 1
villa~c Ghudda suprorts a family of could yokc m~ camrl ~nd plc~uc~h thc l:~nd
~e~cn from his 10 acres. "Twcnty-five even w�hen 1 w�a~ drunk--x~her. 1 rould
yrars ago 1 started taking opium. Bu~ lift the cemel." he says Tode}. he a~iTnit~
thcn o~ium cultivation and sale w�as thirty years of drug-taking h:~ve rumrd
hanncd and the stufTbecame more expen- his health. He takes ''S grams of po~p~
sive so I sa~itched to the tablcts." His dose husk dail~ plus a dose of o~ium i~r
is now ar~~und 10 barbiturate tablets per bsrbiturates if he can afford thcm.
da~. He i~ careful to feed h~s livcslock Hak~m Singh. ?5, of~ ~illt+gr lian~i.
heforr taking the pills; otherw�ise he says startcd taking drug~ when hc H:?~ I'
un~icr the cfi'ect of drugs hc forgets. Presently he need~ 7~ gram~ af r~'~`1"
.larnail Singh, ahst 7.ailder. 45, also husk and five tablet~ ever~ da~. Hc ha~
' c,f Ghudda. w�a~ a rich farmer with 41) alrc~d}~ sold o(T his fi,ur-acrr .hare c,t thc
arrc~ hui childlcss. Hc stsrtcd taking f.imil~ pro~+crt~. Nc i~ not :~~~ri:ini and
~o~+~~ husk w'hcn hc w�a~ 15. thcn gr.~� sincc he ha~ n~~ lan~1 ut~ hi. r� n n~~+ and
duatcd to op~um and finall~ barbiwratrti his reputauon ~ drug-aJ.iict i. w�ell-
A~.i result c~f onc dru~ bincn c~ had t~~.rl! known the f~mil~~ i> un:ihlc to get hirn
u(1 a major ~cution ~f hi. rn~~~cn~ married. ti'hen ~men~cucd he thought
Bcfuddlcd h~� dru~~. hi� ;i~~1~n~~nc~~1 this rc~i~nrr ~~i~uld h;i~c influ^ncc to cet
mone~-lendrr fur Ra'_UU.~nd a:~s made tu him a"liccnrr" t~ get tahlet.
sign un a hlank ~urri N hcn hc ~i~hcrc~l "Plcasc as4. ~licm t~~ Icl mr ha~c 2U t.ihlrt>
u~+. hi~ rrcditor cantrcmlcd tum with a a da~." h~ ~,u~1
Limited Success
ESPITE the international � worldhasnotdecreased.Onthecontrary,
~ummunity's efTortsto datr, drug it has spread and the situation continues
abuse throughout most of the to detcriorate. Of particular concem is
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~hat the vicdms include adoleseents and Pakistan, illicit trafFic in murphine sul-
rven children. phate tablres manuGicwred in Pakistan
Geographically, more and more had begun to surf:ire. An evcn more
countries are afliict^Yi, both developing ominous devcl~~pment is the illicit ma-
and developed. Drugs of greater potency nuf;~cture uf higt~-purity heroin within
arc widely available and consumed in the country with tht mushruoming of
more hazardous ways. These were some heroin labs. \,to,t of the hcroin is destined
of the conclusions made by the io~ !he West European and US markets.
(nternational Narcotics Control Board Narcotic c~:fnrcement agencies and ex-
' (i~+ca) in Vienna last month. Paal Reuter, p~;rts viewed the new trend as a scrious
president of tNSe states that the situation threat to che pra,pc:ctive [ndian urban
has never been more complex or more anct ~u;al markets. Within Pakistan, div-
tieriuus. The estimated three-fold increase zrsion o~` psychotropics substdnces from
- in ~Ilicit production of opium in 1981 licit channcls is beg,inning to find its way
might well exceed 600 tonnes compared to new consuurcrs. The main reason for
to the 200 tonnes produced in I980. This the ~pread is ineft'ective control by the
adds a new dimension to the grov~ing : akistan authurities of the distribution
problem. (ndividual seizures had si~~n networks of licit wholesalers and retailers
frum 2113 in 1979 to 3635 in IS~KO. uf rr~cdicamcnts. The Pakistan pheno-
Said nr~rcotic enfurcernent ofFcr,ils, menon is slowly being duplicated in ~he
this "re~xesented only a fraccion uf Indian markets, both in rural and urban
the uat~ic anu was no indicator r.f the centres.
total quantit,y in c~rculatio~." (o:iia too It is becoming obvious that seriuu,
has emerged as a transit p:,mt. iNOin drug control measures will have to be
T~)DAY's earlier invest:~.~t:an (May I-I5, adopted requiring renewed awarcness,
81) brought out that puint. Still lndian vigilance and coordinateJ action. The
government ufTirial are nut willing to ~NSe, trying to mobilise world govern-
view the problem seriously. Ev~n when ments to take part in a coordin:ite~i drug
illegal drug manufacwrers or smuggl~rs contro) measures, i~ making efTorte tu
a:~ caught and cunvictcd the punish- convince the Unitcd Natiuns to dec:lare
- ments are tuo light tu :ict as detcrrcnts. an (nternacional Year Agaimt Drug
Heroin: Across the bord~~r in � Abuse. So far thry have not tiucrceded.
CSO: 5300/5717
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
DANISH CHP,RAS SMUGGLERS ARRESTED--LAHORE, April 4--Some 13 kilograms ot char-
as worth Rs. 15 lakh has been recovered from two Danish citizens at the Lahore
Airgort. Both rhe culprits were arrested. The arrested persons were Mr. Frier,
Passport No. P. 3956993 and Mr. Kimbir kjar, passport number P 4281779 they
had arrived from Peshawar on Friday night. They wanted to go to India by air.
When the Lahore Airport Customs checked their luggage they found two attache
cases extra-heavy. On thorough checking in the false bottom i:hey found 13
kilograms of the contraband, both the persons were taken into custody. A
couple of days earlier, three Danish citizens, also planning to go to Delhi,
were checked and 15 kilograms charas was recovered from their attache cases.
They were also under arrest. The Assistant Collector, Lahore Airport, said
that he suspected that there was a gang behind them and investigations were
in progress. [Text] [Karachi DAWN in English 5 Apr 82 p 10]
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THAILAND
KHUN SA SEEKS NEGOTIA~IANS WIZ'Ei R~G
Hangkok MATI.CHON in Thai~ 16 Mar 82 p 5
[Article by Thongprai Phansaen.g: Negotia.ting with Khun Sa~ heed, th~e
lesson of th.e Guomindang"]
[TextJ News from various reliable sources c.onfirms tha,t at present "Khun Sa"
is trying his best to negotiate with. the Thai. Government~ stipul.ati.ng that
he will place his troops under the Tha.i a.rmy. I,n addi.ti.an, he has offered
to hel,p enforce all of the government's suppression polic.ies.
In this attempt Khun Sa has not only contacted officials fro~ all the
various sectors of the government; he also has asked the director of the
Depa.rtment of Public Relati.ons to inform the king.
Khun Sa's ~ast record--not to be overlooked
Khun Sa,'s S.II.A. movement was first established with the intentio~n of being
an organ of na,tional Iiberation. However, following the ra.id on Banhintaek,
Khun Sa's stronghold within Thai terri.tory, our officials found a great
number of wea,pons and acc.essories for producing heroin. Our of.iicials never
found.,, and Khun Sa himself has not produced, an offic.ial annou.ncement of
his ideals for national li.bera,tian..
- The over IO tons o� we~apon$, war. materiel, and rati.ons which the inspecting
Thai offi.cials found. cotil.d not have been for national liberation. Rather,,
a more important factor in thei.r being there is Brotec.tion for the transport
of opium and Lhe prod.uction of heroi.n..
Khun Sa's image all over the world is not of a revolutionary, but of a
"herain king."
Not only that. Khun Sa and his troops have also violated many Thia laws.
An obvious example is during the battle at Banhintaek Khun Sa's troops
killed or wound ed 50 Thai officials. Besides that they used their troops
and weapons to attack police stations, causing damage and killing a number
of ','hai offic.ials and citizens.
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.
Although "Khun Sa" is trying to show himself to be a politician or a
revolutionary,, the fact th~,t cannot be denied. is that he is a criminal
whose hands are wet with the bloo~. of the Tha.i people and a ringleader in
the distribution of heroin, which destroys Thai people and people of the
world in the most coldblooded and merciless way.
The Thai Government sh.ould nvt farget the lesson of th.e "Guomindang"
Guomindang troops or, Division 93 retreated.from China.and Burma after th.e
victor.y of the Communist Pa.rty over the Guomindang wa.s c,omplete in October,
1949. The Guomindang~s c,laim was the same as Khun Sa.'s,, that in na.tiona.l
liberation--to li.berate China from the Communists. This pri.nciple caused
the U. S., throtigh the C.L.A,, r to extend 3.ts hand, and. bec.ome invol~ed in
the strategy �oz c~nta.ining Chi.na., wh,ich wa.s the policy of the U.S. in the
period following World. War. II.
The executor of th.e U.S. polic.y in, Tha3,Iand at firsL was the police
department under Polic.e General Phau Siyanon. The un.~.t of the C.~I.A.
that he was associated wiLh was the American Sea SuBBLy ComBany, Ltd.
In any case,. the main activi.ty of the Gu,omindang was not the struggle for
the liberation o~ China,, but the sale and.cultiva.tion of oBium. The Police
department and a group of Thai gener.als at the time ~oined the Guomini:ang
in the opium trade and gradual.Iy enric.hed themselves.
In the period following thisr even though military headquartesr 04 was
set up by a resolution of the cabinet in 1970 to handle matters concerning
the Guomindang and the reliance on the Guomindang to suppress Communists
in th.e north,. the Guomindang retaineci intact the freedom. to cultivate and
- sell opium, and. also d.eveloped into heroi.n producers;
Even today there is no evid ence that the Guomindang is go ing to stop
produci.ng narc.otic~,, based in Thai tezritory ~nd. with the status of
Thai citizens.
We must disarm th.em and rescind a.ll privileges
In the case of the Guomindang, wi~th. hoBes of using those forces to suppress
Thai Communis~ts (wh.i.c.h shouldy rathe~,, be a. matter concer,ning Thailand
itself), the Thai. government allowed the Guomindang to retain its troops
and helped to arm them.. On the one hand,, the Guomindang became involved in
suppressing communi,sm, but,, on the other~y i.t used those privileges to its
own advantage in producing and selli,ng narcotics:
There was c.ri.ticism for a long time that. the Guomindan,g was able to retain ~
those pr.ivileges because cer.tain impor.tant generals joined with them and
supported them behind. the scenes,~ and through contac.ts and pressure got
them Thai citizenship. Then tha t gr~up set ap its own "independent state"
and has given Thailand a bad reputation hzcause of the immense amount of
" narcotics coming through Thailand.
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- We should be well aware of the loopholes, and. that the stipulation.that
the government use this small national �or~.e as a"bu��er" and a tool i.n
suppressing Thai Communists alZows some mi.litary officars to use this type
, of political loophole to thei.r own advantage. The news that some
political parties at present receive financial suPport from sellers of
narcotics who cause suffering all over the world. is aot a blown.-up,
baseless rumor at all,. but has no little truth to it.
In the case of "Khun Sa," ther.e are two Boints to consj.der carefu,lly.
The first poin.t is; wha,t arQ we going to d.o wi�th, these troops, among which.
very little trace rema,ins o� ng~tional Iiber.atian,? I� th~ey a~e only troops
who guard opium and na,rcotic.s i.n the fieldsl with such. a BoliticD.l �ounda-
tiony the most they can be i8 "hir.ed. �ightezs." I� this bunch. were.to be
_ used to kill Communi.sts whg,t guar�antee wotilcl we have tha.t th.ese "h3,red
soldiers" wouldn`t stir up new inc.id.en,ts, causi~n.~; tzouble among the Thai.
people?
The second Boint is Khun Sa maintains pr.esistentl.y that even i,� he were
killed, narcotic.s would not di.saBBea't �~om tfie world, This stron.gl,y
indicates that the sale of nar.cAtic~.s is h~s ecpnomic~. Ii.�eli.n.e and tha.t of
this region of the world. I� we accept Khun Sa,~ wha~t guar.antee would th.e
Thai people have that his people will not con+ti.nue to se11 ngr.c�Atics?
And this time the selling would not be done in the capacity of foreign
troops, but in the capacity of "independent" troops living under the Thai
flag. Won't it turn out that the Thai government is supporting a"narcotics
king" and allowing him to use Thai land as a base for sending out narcotics
whic.h will cause troubles all over the world?
- An old Thai saying q,uite rightly says: "Associating with hoodlums leads
to c.rime; assoc.iating with wisemen leads to benefit."
Deal~Ings with evil people who sell narcotics, no matter whether it is Khun
Sa -~r others trom the pa.st,. does not improve the national reputation. High-�
ranking genera.ls who have i.n the past been close to such nr~rc.otics sellers,.
even those in high political positions,, will be unable to avoid criticism,
and eventually their intestines will be pulled out and stretched longer
and longer.
Likewise, in the case of Khun Sa the government should not be so soft as to
hope that these peopl.e will serve as "buffers" with,Burma or hope t~o use
them to suppress Thai Communists. These are short short-term results. But
the long-term results of drug addic.tion are much more severe.
The correct solution is to push them out of the country or, it they still
try to enterr t~ disarm them. And anyone who commits a c~.rime should be
punished in ac.~~.ordance with the law, or if they disobey international law,
they shculd b!_ extradited to the country involved in.the incident.
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Even if the cobra is weak and tired,, we shouldn't feed it, becaus2 one
- day it will turn around and bite the maste~c who raised it, with no
thought of gratitude for the food and water it w~s given.
The fable of "The Farmer and the Cobra" is noti just to fool children.
There is truth to it,. particularly in the case of "Khun Sa!"
9937
CSO: 5300/5698
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- THAZLAND
COL.T,JMNIS~.~ HERAZN REEI.NING CON~I.NUES DESEITE B,AN HIN TAEK
Bangkok BAN MUANG in Thai 23 Maz 82 p 5
[Article by "Tamolo":. "~he Mounta�in Wind,Blows the Dream.Away"] ~
[Text] First Dlease let me give you a brie� news item to read.
On 11 N',arch of this year P.P.S. [,Narcotics Suppression?] and Customs
officials of. Chiangdao,. Chiangmai Brovince,, inspected two car.s and found
172 li.ters of c.hemic.als used, in proc.essing heroin nwnber 4,, valued at
900,.000 baht.
Three suspects were captu~ed,, two of whom were Master Sergeant and Sergeant
in the Inspection and Production Force o� the Defense Ercergy Department.
The other was a civilian. When in.terrogated the three men confessed that
they were ta.king the ch.emicals to a heroin factory at Doilang,, which is
the former base of Division 93 of the Guomindang.
Reader, if the chemicals to convert oPium into heroin c~ost 900,000 baht,.
how many millions worth of heroin will they make'~
In any case, it shows thst Khun Sa, the big producer and seller that the
government has made an all-out effort to ca~ture,� is only part of the
perati,on wh.ich Broduces and se1ls heroin i.n the Golden Triangle regj:on.
The raid on Khun Sa was only "effective" to a point, for a Iarge portion of
the production and sale is still going on, having become an industry or
an enterprise, and production may be speeded up in order to compensate for
Khun Sa's portion.
. I would like you, reader, to observe that it was the "former Division 93
of the Guomindang" that was named by the suspects as the owner of the
900,000 baht worth of chemicals to be made into heroin.
The former Division 93 is a large-acale producer and seller just like Khun
Sa.
But there are others covering up hy giving interviews to the news media saying
that the former Division 93 has not been involved in opium or heroin
- production and sales.
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It is in:possible for anyane living in the vicinity o� the Golden Triangle
not to be involved in the production and sale o� opium.or heroin.
The role for Division 93 of the Guomindang is a thing o� the past! and
today they are just a minority group who live peacefully in Thailand,
but the structure still remains, having become a system of unoff icial
~~elf-government which spends mil~ions.
Planting tea and s~lling it to merchants at Pratunam in Bangkok brings in
little money, and they'd probably have to sell it at a depressea price.
When Division 93 is mentioned some of you may picture old war veterans
with old tales of adventure.
In Division 93 today it ~s true that there are old war veteran generals
and soldiers, but there are also their descendants, who are young and
strong and becoming a new Div3sion 93, which is more powerful and younger
than the Division 93 of appro~~imately 30 years ago.
At pres~nt Division 93 stfill has armed troops, and armed troops may not ~
legally live on ti.e Thai border. Therefore the Thai government does not
have to take responsibility. But, in fact, who sits and watches and
prevents armed troops from crossing the Thai border?
They come in; the propagate; they pass on the bloodline of Division 93.
There are now Chinese-language schools for the children of D{vision 93 in
the area where Division 93 has settled.
Our Thai children in the good schools of Bangkok cannot compare with these
healthy red-cheeked children.
The Chinese children in Bangkok, too, have to go to these schools in order
to be able to study in Taiwan later (and Taiwan offers scholarships).
I have read a Thai writer on the Thais in Los Angeles, which he calls
Thailand's 73rd province.
Then they must say the same thing in Taiwan, that Division 93 in Chiangrai
is a province of Taiwan.
We are very concerned about Vietnamese refugees who escape from camps
and come and live in Bangkok as Thais.
But who is concerned about Division 93 coming in and becoming owners of
new commercial establishments in Bangkok and Chiangmai?
What is worth thinking about is that 30 years ago Division 93 contained
10,000 people. Today it t?as become 30,000 (because they don't practice
birth control).
In another 30 years they will be 90,000 people.
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I don't have the exact ~igures for the number of people in Division 93 who
have settled along the Thai-Burmese border, but in another 3Q years there
will be problems of the "minority group" o� Aivision 93.
If they mixed and became Thai like the children of the Chinese in Bangkok,
there would be no problem.
But in that environment there is no way for them to ~ecome Thai (even if
thPy wanted to be).
The danger is that they will be a minority group that is intelligent,
well-educated, and armed.
Which all derives from opium.
What the government must do is to get Diviaion 93 to becotne Thai.
And Division 93 will be able to become Thai when the government succeeds
in wiping out opium from the Golden Triangle region.
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CSO: 5300/5698
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ARGENTINA
DRUG TRAFFICKING INCREASE REPORTED
Buenos Aires LA NACION in Spanish 19 Mar 82 p 12
[Excerpt] Taking advantage of the opportunity a few days ago in the city
of Mar del Plata to gather informatior~ about the arrest c~f several persons
who were implicated in drug trafficking--especially of Moroccan hashish
and marihuana--and of the fact that~these drugs were to be shipped to
Spain for sale dui~.ng the forthcoming world soccer championship, it became
known that this action was part of a wide investigation which personnel
oF units of the Federal Police were undertaking in said vacation spot,
Cordoba and the Federal Capital. It has now been reported that in that
inter.ior province, two international traffickers have been arrested, who
werE seized not only with hashish and marihuana but cocaine, heroin and
LSD, the latter two being of very restricted circulation and use because
- of their very high cost.
In the case of the arrests in Cordoba, mention has again been made of the
joint investigations referred to above, and apparently, since there is
no official concrete report, it would have to do with the drug which was
to be carried to Spain for the soccer games.
These two facts demonstrate a great increase in international trafficking
in our country since the first report given by the Federal Police of Mar
del Plata said that the drug came from Morocco, passed through Brazil,
ttar del Plata, Buenos Aires, to leave for Bolivia, and then to Europe.
Now with the second case, it concerns drugs brought from Spain and distributed
trom our country to different places.
To this panorama, we must add the events in Salta, which resulted in one
death, 10 arrest, and an important seizure of drugs.
- In Cordoba
Personnel from Federal Police arrested an international drug trafficker,
as part of a joint action, in the cities of Mar del Plata and Buenos
Aires, where a total of 10 people were arrested.
According to reports, the man arrested in the capital is Antonio Werd
Ruiz, a 24-year-old Spanish citizen, singled out as the ringleader of an
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important international group of drug traffickers. Posing as a businessman
in textiles, it is known, for example, that he made several trips at the
beginning of this year to Spain, returning to this country with a quantity
of drugs which he would have distributed to certain places, in our country
and abroad. On being arrested, he was found to be in possession of 300
grams of pure hashish.
Also arrested was Patricia Elizabeth Lanfuerin Garcia, a 21-year-old
. Argentine, a native of Mar del Plata, who lived with the trafficker Werd
Ruiz since the end of 1981.
It so happened that up to now, in the actions undertaken in Cordoba,
Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata, large quantities of hashish, marihuana,
cocaine, LSD and heroin were seized.
Werd Ruiz and Lanfuerin de Garcia were brought from Cordoba to this capital
and remained at the disposition of the Judge of the Court, Dr Silvia
Hard~y de Garcia.
A Death in Salta
Members of the Salta Aguarry Group of the National Gen3armery seized
contraband drugs and in an armed confrontation shot down one of those
involved, in addition to arresting various people responsible for the
crime.
Tlic events began Tuesday at dawn when the authorities stopped a vehicle
driven by Luis Hector Ruiz on national highway 35 about 30 kilometers
sout}i oF Salvadar Mazza, Salta, in an area on the Ar~entine-Bolivian border.
As a result of discrepanci~s in the account of Hector Ruiz, the owner of
the vehicle, Miguel Paniagua, a Bolivian, was later arrested in Tarragal
and it was confirmed that both, with others involved, had brou;ht bales
of coca leaves into Argentina.
At the same time the other personnel of the same group became suspicious
when they saw a moving automobile carrying three men who were ordered to
stop. -
Their driver stepped on the gas and tried to run down the security personnel
and an exchange of fire ensued in which one of the passengers was shot.
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BAHAMAS
- BRIEFS
MARIJUAIVA BOAT SEIZURE--Three Cuban Americans, a drug boat and a salvaged
boat were brought to Nassau by the Bahamas Defence Force Tuesday. The 34-
foot Criscraft "Miss Johanna" was picked up a mile east of Riding Rock. On
board were 70 bales of marijuana, varying in weight from 50 to 75 lbs. On
board "Miss Johanna" were Wilfredo Onoze, 48, of Hialeah, Fla, Luis Hernanel,
39, also of Hialeah, and Aracerio Moreton, 43, of Miami. During the opera-
tion, the Defence Force was informed by the US Coast Guard that a boat, "Ram-
anito" (92125 H F1), was missing. The Defence Force aircraft spotted a sunk-
en boat and passed on the inforcriation to HMBS Exuma. The Exuma, assisted by
HMBS P31, salavaged the sunked vessel, which turned out to be "Ramanito."
The men, boats, and drugs were taken to the Defence Force's Coral Harbour
base. [Nassau THE TRIBUNE in English 19 Mar 82 p 1]
CSO: 5300/7542
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BRAZIL
PURE COCAINE, WEAPONS SEIZED IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Rio de.Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 19 Mar 82 p 18
_ [Excerpts] Yesterday the police seized 2.65 kg of pure cocaine. "Enhanced"
(mixed with bicarbonate or talcum), the cocaine would have come to 15 kg. Since
a gram of this narcotic costs 8,000 cruzeiros on the retail market in Rio de
Janeiro, the traffickers, who were also arrested, would have received about 120
million cruzeiros, according to the police.
The arrested traffickers are Joao Candido da Ailva, attorney and former agent
of the defunct Vigilance Police, who was expelled from that agency on charges
of homicide, Jose Quintino Pereira, aged 57, and his sons Aldo Quintino Barreto,
aged 22, and Francisco Jose Pereira, aged 34. The arrested were charged under
Articles 12 and 14 of Law No 6,368, for drug tnafficking and forming a traf-
ficking ring.
~ingle Confession
Despite having heen sentenced to over 3 years for drug trafficking, Jose
Quintino Pereira denied any part in the sale of the seized cocaine, as did his
son Francisco Jose and attorney Jose Candido da Silva, who said he had just
been working to appeal the sentence against Jose Quintino, but had not been
able to locate the trial record, "because it had disappeared," he explained.
Only Aldo Quintino Berreto admitted to having ~rought the drug from Campo
Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. He had been ordered by "John Doe" to deliver it
to Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, to a person known to him only as "Pedro."
At ttie attorney's home, the police found three rifles, a.38 caliber revolver
and ammunition for these weapons.
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