methamphetamine pill produced mainly in Myanmar and the adjoining so-called Golden Triangle -- has increased in Bangladesh as a section of youths from solvent families have become used to it over the past several years, according to health and security officials. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has become the latest country in Asia in which use of the drug has surged as criminal syndicates in Myanmar have been supplying the pills through illegal means across the border. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, are the other countries in Asia where the notorious pill crippled millions of youths physically and mentally. Law enforcers including the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seize thousands of yaba pills in areas adjacent to frontiers with Myanmar almost every month. Many other such drug pills were also seized from different areas across the country. But the seizures were fractions of the drug actually smuggled into the country or available with the traffickers and peddlers. Nearly 2.0 million yaba pills were seized in Bangladesh in 2012 against 36,000 pills in 2008, said a data available at the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Bangladesh RAB said on Monday it had seized nearly 40,000 pieces of yaba tablets over the past one week during a special drive across the country against this harmful drug. After failing to stop inflow of yaba tablets in the country, the government has decided to hold talks with Myanmar to close the factories producing yaba tablets along the borders. Officials at the DNC said they have decided to raise the issue with Myanmar in the next bilateral talks which are likely to be held shortly. According to The Jane's Intelligence Review journal, a drug trafficking syndicate operating inside Myanmar is deliberately providing a promotional rate for exports to Bangladesh. Jane's Intelligence Review is a Colorado (US) - based monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation. Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian, quoting health experts in Dhaka said on Tuesday that the number of yaba users have been rising in Bangladesh. "Until around 2011, eighty per cent of clients were heroin addicts (in Bangladesh), but now yaba users account for up to 70 per cent," said the widely circulated daily published from London, quoting CRDA (Centre for Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction) Director Tarun Kanti Gayen in Dhaka. The pills are available in different colours including purple, pink, orange and green coated with flavours of chocolate and strawberry to hide their bitter concoction of drugs inside. These flavours help the users take the drug more easily, but it could severely affect their [central] nervous systems. The pill is a mixture of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, and caffeine that can leave users awake for days, said the expert. "Long the drug of choice for adults in Thailand, yaba producers are now trying to sell it to children through Facebook," said The Guardian attributing to the authorities in Thailand. Yaba tablets are small enough to fit into a straw and are generally swallowed, or crushed into powder and snorted, smoked or injected. As the drug has gained popularity over the years, so has its potency - increasing in its methamphetamine concentration from 20 per cent to as much as 95 per cent for yaba's more pure, crystalline form, known as "ice", said The Guardian. The drug worth $8.5 billion is produced a year predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote area of inaccessible forested region adjacent to Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Data from the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that about 1.4 billion yaba tablets are produced there each year, said the British newspaper. Made in isolated factories and labs that can be easily abandoned or dismantled, the drug is mainly created in the forested hills of Shan state in the Burmese corner of the triangle, where policing is minimal and labs difficult to find out. Crackdowns have had varying success, said The Guardian. A war on drugs waged by the Thai government in 2003, killed more than 2,500 people in three months as police followed orders to act "decisively and without mercy" against suspected dealers, said the British newspaper. A second crackdown took place between April and June last year (2012), when a joint operation between China, Thailand, Burma and Laos called Mekong Safe seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs, and more than 2,500 suspects were arrested. But a year on, the trade is far from stemmed. Just last week, police seized 1.0 million yaba tablets stashed in the roof of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai, while in May several people were arrested after 400,000 yaba pills and 7.0 kilogram of ice were seized in Bangkok, said The Guardian.

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methamphetamine pill produced mainly in Myanmar and the adjoining so-called Golden Triangle -- has increased in Bangladesh as a section of youths from solvent families have become used to it over the past several years, according to health and security officials. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has become the latest country in Asia in which use of the drug has surged as criminal syndicates in Myanmar have been supplying the pills through illegal means across the border. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, are the other countries in Asia where the notorious pill crippled millions of youths physically and mentally. Law enforcers including the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seize thousands of yaba pills in areas adjacent to frontiers with Myanmar almost every month. Many other such drug pills were also seized from different areas across the country. But the seizures were fractions of the drug actually smuggled into the country or available with the traffickers and peddlers. Nearly 2.0 million yaba pills were seized in Bangladesh in 2012 against 36,000 pills in 2008, said a data available at the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Bangladesh RAB said on Monday it had seized nearly 40,000 pieces of yaba tablets over the past one week during a special drive across the country against this harmful drug. After failing to stop inflow of yaba tablets in the country, the government has decided to hold talks with Myanmar to close the factories producing yaba tablets along the borders. Officials at the DNC said they have decided to raise the issue with Myanmar in the next bilateral talks which are likely to be held shortly. According to The Jane's Intelligence Review journal, a drug trafficking syndicate operating inside Myanmar is deliberately providing a promotional rate for exports to Bangladesh. Jane's Intelligence Review is a Colorado (US) - based monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation. Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian, quoting health experts in Dhaka said on Tuesday that the number of yaba users have been rising in Bangladesh. "Until around 2011, eighty per cent of clients were heroin addicts (in Bangladesh), but now yaba users account for up to 70 per cent," said the widely circulated daily published from London, quoting CRDA (Centre for Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction) Director Tarun Kanti Gayen in Dhaka. The pills are available in different colours including purple, pink, orange and green coated with flavours of chocolate and strawberry to hide their bitter concoction of drugs inside. These flavours help the users take the drug more easily, but it could severely affect their [central] nervous systems. The pill is a mixture of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, and caffeine that can leave users awake for days, said the expert. "Long the drug of choice for adults in Thailand, yaba producers are now trying to sell it to children through Facebook," said The Guardian attributing to the authorities in Thailand. Yaba tablets are small enough to fit into a straw and are generally swallowed, or crushed into powder and snorted, smoked or injected. As the drug has gained popularity over the years, so has its potency - increasing in its methamphetamine concentration from 20 per cent to as much as 95 per cent for yaba's more pure, crystalline form, known as "ice", said The Guardian. The drug worth $8.5 billion is produced a year predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote area of inaccessible forested region adjacent to Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Data from the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that about 1.4 billion yaba tablets are produced there each year, said the British newspaper. Made in isolated factories and labs that can be easily abandoned or dismantled, the drug is mainly created in the forested hills of Shan state in the Burmese corner of the triangle, where policing is minimal and labs difficult to find out. Crackdowns have had varying success, said The Guardian. A war on drugs waged by the Thai government in 2003, killed more than 2,500 people in three months as police followed orders to act "decisively and without mercy" against suspected dealers, said the British newspaper. A second crackdown took place between April and June last year (2012), when a joint operation between China, Thailand, Burma and Laos called Mekong Safe seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs, and more than 2,500 suspects were arrested. But a year on, the trade is far from stemmed. Just last week, police seized 1.0 million yaba tablets stashed in the roof of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai, while in May several people were arrested after 400,000 yaba pills and 7.0 kilogram of ice were seized in Bangkok, said The Guardian.

• published: 06 Oct 2013
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methamphetamine pill produced mainly in Myanmar and the adjoining so-called Golden Triangle -- has increased in Bangladesh as a section of youths from solvent families have become used to it over the past several years, according to health and security officials. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has become the latest country in Asia in which use of the drug has surged as criminal syndicates in Myanmar have been supplying the pills through illegal means across the border. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, are the other countries in Asia where the notorious pill crippled millions of youths physically and mentally. Law enforcers including the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seize thousands of yaba pills in areas adjacent to frontiers with Myanmar almost every month. Many other such drug pills were also seized from different areas across the country. But the seizures were fractions of the drug actually smuggled into the country or available with the traffickers and peddlers. Nearly 2.0 million yaba pills were seized in Bangladesh in 2012 against 36,000 pills in 2008, said a data available at the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Bangladesh RAB said on Monday it had seized nearly 40,000 pieces of yaba tablets over the past one week during a special drive across the country against this harmful drug. After failing to stop inflow of yaba tablets in the country, the government has decided to hold talks with Myanmar to close the factories producing yaba tablets along the borders. Officials at the DNC said they have decided to raise the issue with Myanmar in the next bilateral talks which are likely to be held shortly. According to The Jane's Intelligence Review journal, a drug trafficking syndicate operating inside Myanmar is deliberately providing a promotional rate for exports to Bangladesh. Jane's Intelligence Review is a Colorado (US) - based monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation. Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian, quoting health experts in Dhaka said on Tuesday that the number of yaba users have been rising in Bangladesh. "Until around 2011, eighty per cent of clients were heroin addicts (in Bangladesh), but now yaba users account for up to 70 per cent," said the widely circulated daily published from London, quoting CRDA (Centre for Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction) Director Tarun Kanti Gayen in Dhaka. The pills are available in different colours including purple, pink, orange and green coated with flavours of chocolate and strawberry to hide their bitter concoction of drugs inside. These flavours help the users take the drug more easily, but it could severely affect their [central] nervous systems. The pill is a mixture of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, and caffeine that can leave users awake for days, said the expert. "Long the drug of choice for adults in Thailand, yaba producers are now trying to sell it to children through Facebook," said The Guardian attributing to the authorities in Thailand. Yaba tablets are small enough to fit into a straw and are generally swallowed, or crushed into powder and snorted, smoked or injected. As the drug has gained popularity over the years, so has its potency - increasing in its methamphetamine concentration from 20 per cent to as much as 95 per cent for yaba's more pure, crystalline form, known as "ice", said The Guardian. The drug worth $8.5 billion is produced a year predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote area of inaccessible forested region adjacent to Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Data from the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that about 1.4 billion yaba tablets are produced there each year, said the British newspaper. Made in isolated factories and labs that can be easily abandoned or dismantled, the drug is mainly created in the forested hills of Shan state in the Burmese corner of the triangle, where policing is minimal and labs difficult to find out. Crackdowns have had varying success, said The Guardian. A war on drugs waged by the Thai government in 2003, killed more than 2,500 people in three months as police followed orders to act "decisively and without mercy" against suspected dealers, said the British newspaper. A second crackdown took place between April and June last year (2012), when a joint operation between China, Thailand, Burma and Laos called Mekong Safe seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs, and more than 2,500 suspects were arrested. But a year on, the trade is far from stemmed. Just last week, police seized 1.0 million yaba tablets stashed in the roof of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai, while in May several people were arrested after 400,000 yaba pills and 7.0 kilogram of ice were seized in Bangkok, said The Guardian.

• published: 06 Oct 2013
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methamphetamine pill produced mainly in Myanmar and the adjoining so-called Golden Triangle -- has increased in Bangladesh as a section of youths from solvent families have become used to it over the past several years, according to health and security officials. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has become the latest country in Asia in which use of the drug has surged as criminal syndicates in Myanmar have been supplying the pills through illegal means across the border. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, are the other countries in Asia where the notorious pill crippled millions of youths physically and mentally. Law enforcers including the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seize thousands of yaba pills in areas adjacent to frontiers with Myanmar almost every month. Many other such drug pills were also seized from different areas across the country. But the seizures were fractions of the drug actually smuggled into the country or available with the traffickers and peddlers. Nearly 2.0 million yaba pills were seized in Bangladesh in 2012 against 36,000 pills in 2008, said a data available at the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Bangladesh RAB said on Monday it had seized nearly 40,000 pieces of yaba tablets over the past one week during a special drive across the country against this harmful drug. After failing to stop inflow of yaba tablets in the country, the government has decided to hold talks with Myanmar to close the factories producing yaba tablets along the borders. Officials at the DNC said they have decided to raise the issue with Myanmar in the next bilateral talks which are likely to be held shortly. According to The Jane's Intelligence Review journal, a drug trafficking syndicate operating inside Myanmar is deliberately providing a promotional rate for exports to Bangladesh. Jane's Intelligence Review is a Colorado (US) - based monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation. Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian, quoting health experts in Dhaka said on Tuesday that the number of yaba users have been rising in Bangladesh. "Until around 2011, eighty per cent of clients were heroin addicts (in Bangladesh), but now yaba users account for up to 70 per cent," said the widely circulated daily published from London, quoting CRDA (Centre for Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction) Director Tarun Kanti Gayen in Dhaka. The pills are available in different colours including purple, pink, orange and green coated with flavours of chocolate and strawberry to hide their bitter concoction of drugs inside. These flavours help the users take the drug more easily, but it could severely affect their [central] nervous systems. The pill is a mixture of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, and caffeine that can leave users awake for days, said the expert. "Long the drug of choice for adults in Thailand, yaba producers are now trying to sell it to children through Facebook," said The Guardian attributing to the authorities in Thailand. Yaba tablets are small enough to fit into a straw and are generally swallowed, or crushed into powder and snorted, smoked or injected. As the drug has gained popularity over the years, so has its potency - increasing in its methamphetamine concentration from 20 per cent to as much as 95 per cent for yaba's more pure, crystalline form, known as "ice", said The Guardian. The drug worth $8.5 billion is produced a year predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote area of inaccessible forested region adjacent to Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Data from the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that about 1.4 billion yaba tablets are produced there each year, said the British newspaper. Made in isolated factories and labs that can be easily abandoned or dismantled, the drug is mainly created in the forested hills of Shan state in the Burmese corner of the triangle, where policing is minimal and labs difficult to find out. Crackdowns have had varying success, said The Guardian. A war on drugs waged by the Thai government in 2003, killed more than 2,500 people in three months as police followed orders to act "decisively and without mercy" against suspected dealers, said the British newspaper. A second crackdown took place between April and June last year (2012), when a joint operation between China, Thailand, Burma and Laos called Mekong Safe seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs, and more than 2,500 suspects were arrested. But a year on, the trade is far from stemmed. Just last week, police seized 1.0 million yaba tablets stashed in the roof of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai, while in May several people were arrested after 400,000 yaba pills and 7.0 kilogram of ice were seized in Bangkok, said The Guardian.

• published: 06 Oct 2013
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methamphetamine pill produced mainly in Myanmar and the adjoining so-called Golden Triangle -- has increased in Bangladesh as a section of youths from solvent families have become used to it over the past several years, according to health and security officials. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has become the latest country in Asia in which use of the drug has surged as criminal syndicates in Myanmar have been supplying the pills through illegal means across the border. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea, are the other countries in Asia where the notorious pill crippled millions of youths physically and mentally. Law enforcers including the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seize thousands of yaba pills in areas adjacent to frontiers with Myanmar almost every month. Many other such drug pills were also seized from different areas across the country. But the seizures were fractions of the drug actually smuggled into the country or available with the traffickers and peddlers. Nearly 2.0 million yaba pills were seized in Bangladesh in 2012 against 36,000 pills in 2008, said a data available at the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Bangladesh RAB said on Monday it had seized nearly 40,000 pieces of yaba tablets over the past one week during a special drive across the country against this harmful drug. After failing to stop inflow of yaba tablets in the country, the government has decided to hold talks with Myanmar to close the factories producing yaba tablets along the borders. Officials at the DNC said they have decided to raise the issue with Myanmar in the next bilateral talks which are likely to be held shortly. According to The Jane's Intelligence Review journal, a drug trafficking syndicate operating inside Myanmar is deliberately providing a promotional rate for exports to Bangladesh. Jane's Intelligence Review is a Colorado (US) - based monthly journal on military intelligence published by Jane's Information Group (Jane's). Its coverage includes international security issues, ongoing conflicts, organized crime, and weapons proliferation. Meanwhile, British newspaper The Guardian, quoting health experts in Dhaka said on Tuesday that the number of yaba users have been rising in Bangladesh. "Until around 2011, eighty per cent of clients were heroin addicts (in Bangladesh), but now yaba users account for up to 70 per cent," said the widely circulated daily published from London, quoting CRDA (Centre for Rehabilitation of Drug Addiction) Director Tarun Kanti Gayen in Dhaka. The pills are available in different colours including purple, pink, orange and green coated with flavours of chocolate and strawberry to hide their bitter concoction of drugs inside. These flavours help the users take the drug more easily, but it could severely affect their [central] nervous systems. The pill is a mixture of methamphetamine, better known as crystal meth, and caffeine that can leave users awake for days, said the expert. "Long the drug of choice for adults in Thailand, yaba producers are now trying to sell it to children through Facebook," said The Guardian attributing to the authorities in Thailand. Yaba tablets are small enough to fit into a straw and are generally swallowed, or crushed into powder and snorted, smoked or injected. As the drug has gained popularity over the years, so has its potency - increasing in its methamphetamine concentration from 20 per cent to as much as 95 per cent for yaba's more pure, crystalline form, known as "ice", said The Guardian. The drug worth $8.5 billion is produced a year predominantly in the Golden Triangle, a remote area of inaccessible forested region adjacent to Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Data from the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that about 1.4 billion yaba tablets are produced there each year, said the British newspaper. Made in isolated factories and labs that can be easily abandoned or dismantled, the drug is mainly created in the forested hills of Shan state in the Burmese corner of the triangle, where policing is minimal and labs difficult to find out. Crackdowns have had varying success, said The Guardian. A war on drugs waged by the Thai government in 2003, killed more than 2,500 people in three months as police followed orders to act "decisively and without mercy" against suspected dealers, said the British newspaper. A second crackdown took place between April and June last year (2012), when a joint operation between China, Thailand, Burma and Laos called Mekong Safe seized almost 10 tonnes of drugs, and more than 2,500 suspects were arrested. But a year on, the trade is far from stemmed. Just last week, police seized 1.0 million yaba tablets stashed in the roof of a pickup truck in Chiang Rai, while in May several people were arrested after 400,000 yaba pills and 7.0 kilogram of ice were seized in Bangkok, said The Guardian.

• published: 06 Oct 2013
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