On the Frontline: Poverty, Opium and Militarisation in Modern Burma’s Golden Triangle
An article by Burma Campaign UK’s Researcher Alec Scott. ‘In the past 8 years opium production in Burma has nearly tripled. Ninety-seven percent of Southeast Asia’s opium is produced in Burma, with 92% of production located in Shan State in the east of the country. Shan State is mountainous and home to many ethnic peoples, …