Chapter 2 "Poison Triangle"

The Golden Triangle refers to the triangular area at the junction of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. Everyone knows its location, but no one knows its area.Mr. Charles, a reporter from the American "Life Magazine", once estimated that it is 155,000 square kilometers, more than four times larger than Taiwan, but no one can be sure of its actual size, because "triangle" is just a concept and Impression, it has no clear boundaries. The "triangle" at the junction of the three countries in the world can't be counted with two palms, and none of them are unknown, but only the "triangle" at the junction of the three countries of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand has been crowned with the word "golden", which has caused geographical disarray in the twentieth century. Strong shock.The reason is simple, it has the largest production of drugs in the world.If the "Golden Triangle" is renamed the "Poisonous Triangle", it will be more obvious and more realistic.In this largest drug den in human history, there is the largest opium growing area in the world.If the opium-growing areas are taken as the prerequisite, the "triangle" is not a regular triangle, but it is pressed tightly in northern Thailand like a broken boot.Many people have the impression that the "triangle" means "no matter what".Some "triangles" may be like this, but the "Golden Triangle" is not. The borders of the three countries are strict. If something happens on one side of any country, it must use its own strength to deal with it by itself. Even if it cannot be resolved, the other party will not intervene.Just like in this war, Mr. Kun Sha's "Shan State Revolutionary Army" clearly camped in the border town of Manxingdi in Thailand, threatening to "borrow the land to restore the country", and the arrow pointed directly at the Myanmar government, but the Myanmar government could not "pursue" it. The territory of Thailand can only ask Thailand to deport him back to Myanmar, and then Myanmar will start.The reason why it has finally formed an appearance of "three no-regards" is because some countries do not take "management" very seriously, not only do not take "management" very seriously, but also deliberately "don't care", and even hope that It is best to maintain the current chaotic status quo, which is in the best interests of several powerful officials.Mr. Reader must chew on this sentence carefully, and then get the answer to the horror that happened there.Otherwise, you will have a feeling of "the more you think about it, the more you can't figure it out".

There is nothing in the world that can destroy human beings more than opium, the mother of drugs. It destroys people's wealth first, then their dignity, and finally their lives. Addicts and addicts end up in the end, almost without exception. Some died in the street, or in a shabby empty house.No matter in Soho, New York or Soho, London, when a drug addict crawls on the ground begging a retailer to give him a small packet of heroin; when you are a noble and beautiful woman, you will feel it is a kind of blasphemy if you touch her. Obscene, she suddenly yawned, and then she took off her clothes like the most filthy whore, and knelt down in front of you trembling, begging you to manipulate her as you like, just give her a small packet of white powder.This is when you become aware of the role played by the "Golden Triangle".There is an invisible, intangible, but actually existing pipe like thousands of microvessels, which stretches silently from the "Golden Triangle" to all parts of the world, reaches every dark corner, and falls into the anxiety of addicts and addicted ladies. And trembling hands.Of course there are drug dens in other parts of the world, like western Turkey, but they are dwindling.In the 1970s, the "Golden Triangle" drug production only accounted for 50% of the world's total drug production.By the 1980s, it had advanced to 75 percent.

According to the report of Mr. Basong, Secretary-General of the Thai Safety Council, there are 600,000 drug addicts in Thailand, that is, for every 100 Thai compatriots, there is one addict and one addicted lady, and the annual consumption is 7.4 billion baht , which is equivalent to about 13 billion NT dollars, which is equivalent to about 740,000 taels of gold based on the market gold price.And in Hong Kong, the most important transit point, 80,000 of the population of 4 million are addicted to drugs, accounting for just 2% of the total population.However, this is not what Western countries care about. What Western countries care about is the extent to which their own people have been killed.There are only 8,000 drug addicts in the Netherlands, including about 1,000 Chinese, which has caused panic in the Netherlands.The price of heroin in the "Golden Triangle" of origin is less than 5,000 U.S. dollars (about 12 taels of gold) per kilogram, but in the Netherlands, it can be sold for at least 120,000 U.S. dollars per kilogram (about 240 taels of gold). They all became super rich.As the saying goes: "No one does business that loses money, but some people do business that loses life."The United States has become the final destination for victims. The Federal Bureau of Drugs and Dangerous Drugs described the speed of drugs flowing into the United States as "like rain".Because all countries are transit stations, whether it is Hong Kong or Amsterdam (the two major drug cities in the East and the West), except for a small part that is left for digestion, most of them are transshipped for export. Although the Netherlands has only 8,000 drug addicts, every year " "Import" six to seven hundred kilograms of heroin, and this excess, and excess from elsewhere, ends up in the United States, where it is all absorbed immediately by an estimated three million addicts.The United States is like a gigantic "drug addict" that accepts drugs from all over the world.

Three million drug addicts is a hysterical figure.Drug addicts are not isolated. In an average family of four, there are 12 million people with broken hearts. The robbery and murder they launched—for the purpose of buying a small packet of heroin—brought moral degradation and social chaos The by-products are more obvious in front of your eyes.The U.S. Federal Drug and Dangerous Drug Administration is obviously helpless. All they do is "cut" the pipeline, and they have indeed cut off a lot of pipelines.However, just like a wooden barrel full of cracks in the ocean of poison, all the leaks cannot be blocked with a few fingers. Every time the pipeline is cut off, the price of drugs will only increase sharply, which will only fatten those people. No drug lord was caught.

There is only one way to eradicate it, that is, to stop the source of the poison and eliminate the "Golden Triangle". This is the main reason for launching the Golden Triangle War. No one, including Mr. Kun Sha, who was accused of being the "drug lord king" in this war, disapproves of the complete eradication of opium. This constitutes a delicate situation.