6 Executed in China in Year for Opium Dealing
Associated Press
KUNMING, China —
Six Chinese have been executed in the last year for smuggling opium into Yunnan province from the Golden Triangle, where Burma, Laos and northern Thailand meet, according to death posters in the Chinese provincial capital of Kunming.
The Peking government contends that it ended drug abuse in China by 1952, but local officials--acknowledging that opium is still used in Yunnan--blamed opium smuggling on outsiders.
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