DKBA declares Myawaddy Township a drug free zone
The DKBA’s political wing, Klohtoobaw Karen Organization (KKO), has declared all areas in Myawaddy Township under their control as drug free zones.
The KKO met with 25 village heads and as many as 50 village representatives at their headquarter, Kaw Thu Mwe Kee, to discussed anti-drug activities and announce the drug free zones.
Saw Gon Aung, KKO general secretary told
Karen News.
“We agreed with local resident to outlaw all drug activities in areas under our control. We all agree to declare the area as drug free zones”.
The KKO gave permission to village heads to arrest drug users, drug buyers and drug sellers in each village. Village heads agreed to hand the drug offenders over to KKO.
Drug haul shrinks to just 1g of ketamine
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published : 16 Dec 2020 at 04:40
34 Wichai Chaimongkol, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, inspects what turned out to be trisodium phosphate, in Chachoengsao province last month. (Police photo)
Authorities said on Tuesday that just over one gramme of ketamine had been found in a seizure that police had initially believed contained over 12 tonnes of the drug worth almost US$1 billion (30 billion baht).
Wichai Chaimongkol, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), told a news conference 12.1 tonnes of the haul contained trisodium phosphate a chemical which can be used as a food additive and cleaning agent.