Myanmar drug trade

The country’s law enforcement operations have done little to shrink the narcotics trade amid a pandemic-related supply glut and instability in Myanmar.

The country's four largest meth seizures on record have come over the past 15 months – striking evidence of the scale of the recent Mekong drug production boom.

The U.N. drug agency claims that last year's seizures of methamphetamine were seven times higher than the amount seized 10 years ago.

The World Wildlife Fund claims that illegal online transactions of endangered wildlife products rose 74 percent in 2021.

The chaos that has enveloped Myanmar since the military takeover has been a gift to the country's drug trafficking syndicates.

This week's 17 million tablet haul amounts to nearly the entire recorded seizures for last year.

Asian government's seizures of methamphetamine rose 19 percent in 2020.

The arrival of coronavirus cases from Myanmar highlights the difficulty of securing the long, winding border between the two countries.

In Kachin state, locals have taken the war on drugs into their own hands.