Burma Cracks Down on Its Opium Trade
Authorities destroyed more than 21,000 acres of opium poppies and seized more than a ton of the raw narcotic in the first six months of 1985, a government report said.
The report, submitted to Parliament last week, also reported January-to-June seizures of 68 pounds of morphine base and 93 pounds of heroin, as well as the 2,013 pounds of raw opium. All three drugs are derivatives of the opium poppy.
Much of the production and trafficking in illegal drugs in Burma involves warlords and rebel bands fighting the central government in Rangoon.
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