Myanmar anti-narcotics effort will see modest success
Entrenched interests ahead of the 2015 election portend modest success for Myanmar's effort to curb drug trade
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- Drug-financed conflict
- Scale of the problem
- UNODC-Myanmar agreement
- Existing measures
- Prospects for success
- International response
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_350.jpg "Burning of seized drugs at an event to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun)")