The capitals in Southeast Asia in Myanmar on Thursday, June 26, 2025, burned and destroyed almost $ 300 million seized illegal drugs, AP reported.
Opium, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, ketamine and ice, which is also known as crystal Meth, were among other confiscated illegal drugs that were destroyed on Thursday at a drug combustion ceremony, the press agency quoting the police Yangon reported. Gene. Sein lwin of speech.
The actual value of drugs, which was burned on Thursday in three places in Myanmar, was worth $ 297.95 million, official, realized development, told the press agency.
A video shared by the Social Media Social Media platform showed an official drug combustion event with a fire brigade on the spot to take control of the problem after illegal drugs were publicly destroyed.
Warning Myanmar
UN experts in drug trade, in early May 2025, indicated that in Southeast Asia illegal meters and other dangerous drugs with a record level of seizures that show the scope of the operation are growing according to the earlier report.
Drug trade operations take place in the “Golden Triangle”, including Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, the meeting point and the Myanmar Eastern Shan State, according to the report.
The Agency’s report also stressed that opium and heroin production flourished in a nation due to the country’s jurisdiction in border areas where the Myanmar Central Government carries minimal control over many ethnic minorities, some of which eventually contribute to drug trafficking.
On Thursday, the largest city of Myanmar, Yangon, burned a massive pile of drugs worth more than $ 117 million, according to Sein Lwin officer Lwin.
The country has conducted the same event of drug combustion across other cities as Mandalay and Taunggyi to mark International Drug Day and unauthorized trading. All of these areas are close to where these illegal drugs are carried out, the press agency reported.
Myanmar has become the main source of illegal drugs supplied in East and Southeast Asia, despite the frequent efforts to intervene operations due to the long history of the country’s drug production and the political and economic uncertainty in the country.
According to UNODC, published in May 2025, this offer led to an increase in drug flow “throughout Eastern and Southeast Asia, but also more and more to South Asia, especially in northeastern India,” according to the UNC report published in May 2025.
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