Cambodian intravenous drug users, who declined to be identified, take a rest at the place where they live and use narcotics behind a pagoda in Phnom Penh. Mean Veasna, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
09/05/2007
The US said Wednesday its Drug Enforcement Administration would give $50,000 to Cambodia through the UN for the destruction of 4 tons of drug-making materials found in two raids April 1.
One ton of the chemicals were potentially explosive and others were toxic, officials said. The Cambodian government and the UN planned to spend $120,000 to destroy drug-making materials, a UN drug officer said.
Fourteen people were arrested in the April 1 drug sweeps, but a provincial government official and a rights investigator urged their release, saying the suspects were unwitting workers in drug production who thought they might be making fertilizer.
The money comes as cooperation between Cambodian and US enforcement agencies, including the DEA and the FBI, are improving.
One ton of the chemicals were potentially explosive and others were toxic, officials said. The Cambodian government and the UN planned to spend $120,000 to destroy drug-making materials, a UN drug officer said.
Fourteen people were arrested in the April 1 drug sweeps, but a provincial government official and a rights investigator urged their release, saying the suspects were unwitting workers in drug production who thought they might be making fertilizer.
The money comes as cooperation between Cambodian and US enforcement agencies, including the DEA and the FBI, are improving.
9 comments:
Thank you all for helping to remove
poisons from our holly soil!
A kind reward to the criminal drug smugglers. Do the same thing again and you will receive dollars from the FBI.
Let's followed the world.
Oh, and while we are in the process
of getting rid of poisons in
Cambodia, don't forget to get rid
of Ah Khmer-Yuons also because
they are more toxic than heroin.
11:54 AM Yes don't forget Ah Khmer-Yuon, Ah Khmer Jen or Ah Youn-Khmer too.
hEY SHOULD WE SALE THE LAND BELONG TO THE DRUG MAKER TO CLEAN THE POLUTION TOO?
DON'T CRY NHEK BUN CHAY JUST ONLY MONEY!
No 4:09, Ah Yuon-Khmers and Ah Jen-Khmers are here to develope
Cambodia. If we want to be like
Hong Kong, Singapore, ..., then
you don't want to get rid of them.
To 10:49AM Vietcong sympathizer!
AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave gave AH YOUN-KHMER over 30 years to develp and yet I don't see any improvement! These Youn-Khmr and Jen-Khmer are too busy doing corruption and moving oversea to live!!!ahahhahahh So this mean Cambodian people are better off not to depend on AH YOUN-KHMER or Jen-Khmer!!!!I still favor many of the Jen-Khmer anytime...because they are highly network in business activities. It is a sad thing that most Cambodian people don't like Jen-Khmer that much because the Jen-Khmer do business base on exploitation and not on morlaity!!!!
Of course you don't see
improvement, that is because you
refused to open your eyes like
everyone else. World Bank, ADP, ...
and the whole world see a reduction
in poverty and high growth in
Cambodia every year.
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