Southeast Asian Narcotics: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, July 12 and 13, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 266 páginas |
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addicts administration armed Asian Asian heroin Bangkok BENSINGER Bo Mya BOURNE BURKE Burmese Communist Party Burmese Government caravans Chairman Chiang Communist CONGRESS THE LIBRARY convoys cooperation crop substitution deal discussed drug abuse DUPONT effective efforts eradication ethnic fact FALCO forces GILMAN going Golden Triangle Government of Burma helicopters heroin human rights insurgent interdiction interest involved Kachin Karen Karen National Union Khun Sar Laos LIBRARY OF CONGRESS major meeting Mexico minority groups Mong narcotics control narcotics suppression Ne Win NELLIS OAKLEY operations opiates opium crop opium production Pa-O percent political poppy preemptive buy President problem proposal question RANGEL Rangoon reduced refineries region SALWEEN RIVER Select Committee Shan United Army Southeast Asia talking Thai Thai border Thai Government Thank tion tons of opium trade U.S. Government UNFDAC villages WOLFF
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Página 8 - Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that the testimony you are about to give in this case shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Página 47 - The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from New York (Mr.
Página 134 - House Office Building, Annex 2, Washington, DC 20515 DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I...
Página 225 - According to the investigators, ". . . witnesses from the Shan State provided us with convincing evidence that Burma's antinarcotics campaign is a form of economic warfare aimed at the subjugation of its Minority Peoples. We have received testimony of Shan opium fields harvested by Burmese soldiers for their own profit, of tribal opium fields destroyed without compensation, of helicopter-borne troops burning rice fields and villages in the Kachin areas, and of livestock driven off the Karen...
Página 76 - Thank you for your attention. I will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Página 6 - Frey has asked that his prepared statement be included in the record. Without objection, it will be included in the record at this point.
Página 134 - Burma and the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control and the Division of Narcotic Drugs calling for a $6.5 million UN contribution to a five-year multi-disciplinary programme, whose objectives are to curb simultaneously illicit opium production and national drug abuse. More specifically, the UN programme will provide assistance in the following sectors: Agricultural development. Under this heading the main objectives are: (i) Expansion of the sericulture industry to provide alternative income (ii) Development...
Página 49 - ... of money in 1968 when Thailand's armed forces participated in the Vietnam war. This effort gave him the opportunity to smuggle large quantities of heroin to Saigon for sale to American soldiers, in collusion with some Thai Army officers. Intelligence sources reveal that between 1970 and 1971 A'Pung has a knack for making friends in Thai Government circles. He has close connections with the Thai Army and the Thai police as well as officials of the former government.
Página 223 - ... General Bo Mya and representatives of the Shan, Kachin, Karen, Pa-O and Palaung groups. Of particular importance is the letter from Bo Mya to President Carter, the transcript of discussions between the staff and Khun Sar and the speech by General Kriangsak. In addition, a background information section has been included to provide the reader who is not familiar with the pattern of opium trafficking in Southeast Asia with material necessary to a basic understanding of the factual ingredients....
Página 24 - ... coming into the United States across the Mexican borders, I have been conditioned to accept what the conditions would have been had it not been for our great success. All I am saying is that it is not a question of how many bombs you are going to drop on the minority and poor communities in the United States.