Guy:
The UNDCP has been up here for years. There is very little evidence that
they do anything.
My question and point was regarding US involvement.
There is a large US drug war going on, large DEA office in Chiang Mai,
D.A.R.E. programs, Billion or better for Columbia, etc etc, and yet no money
spent in one of the most obvious places to spend it, at one of the sources
here, though Thailand is being promised night vision equipment.
Isn't this the kind of blindness that makes governments notorious?
The US is a leader everywhere but in this category?
Why is that?
Matthew McDaniel
Thailand
"Schmidt, Guy" wrote:
> In response to your request;
>
> You could try to contact the United Nations International Drug Control
> Program (UNDCP). It consists of the United Nations International Drug
> Control Program and the United Nations Center for International Crime
> Prevention, is established to enable the Organization to focus and enhance
> its capacity to address the interrelated issues of drug control, crime
> prevention and international terrorism in all its forms. Contact
> information....
>
> United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
> Vienna International Center
> PO Box 500
> A-1400 Vienna
> Austria
>
> Telephone: +43 1 26060 0
> Fax: +43 1 26060 5866
> Telex: 135612 UNO A
> Cable: unations vienna
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web Site: http://www.undcp.org/
>
> Thank You,
>
> ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse
> P.O. Box 6000
> Rockville, MD 20849-6000
> 800-666-3332
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
> For more information on the Clearinghouse visit
> http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/about/clearinghouse.html
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew McDaniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Golden Triangle, opium harvesting, heroin and solutions
>
> Dear Sir:
> ONDCP
> The White House,
>
> I am an American working with the Akha Hill Tribe in Thailand now for
> ten years.
>
> There are 282 Akha villages in Thailand, not to mention Burma, and in
> the case of the villages in Thailand many of these villages are directly
> located against the border with Burma in Chiangrai Province.
>
> I have also noted that Cobra Gold 2001 is going to have a Chiangrai
> Province Joint Drug Interdiction effort?
>
> The point is this. Nothing is being done to alleviate the poverty in
> these many villages. The Akha are loosing land to the forestry
> department, which is ruthless, and they do not have enough food or
> medicine. Usually they do not have Identification Cards that would allow
> travel and employment.
>
> It seems very strange to be fighting a drug war, when a group of people
> who used to be punished for not growing their quota of opium just a few
> years ago, a legacy of the fine British, are now not even considered
> part of the equation.
>
> Certainly some basic aid in the way of land security, land rights and
> nutrition for children would alleviate much need to be involved in any
> aspect of opium production or meth trafficing.
>
> Seems odd that this has been overlooked, here in the Golden Triangle,
> center of at least half the world's heroin supply and now a huge
> production area of speed pills.
>
> United Wa Army says that this month they are dumping 300,000,000 speed
> pills into Thailand.
>
> All this has to come past Akha villages. The Akha see the chemicals
> come in, the pills go out, and naturally, like you and I, wonder what is
> going on.
>
> Aid into the villages would be very useful in offering security to the
> Akha regarding nutrition. Currently the Akha are caught in a
> hammerlock. Drug lords who will gladly kill them, which I have
> witnessed, police, army and forestry who will gladly put them in prison.
>
> In an age when millions of dollars are being spent on the drug war, why
> are these key people being overlooked?
>
> Awaiting your kind reply,
>
> Matthew McDaniel
> Maesai, Chiangrai, Thailand
>
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