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Burma destroyed more than 50 tons of heroin, methamphetamine, opium, ketamine, marijuana and crystal meth — carrying an estimated $600 million street value — in a public incineration on Friday, marking the United Nations' International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
The value of narcotics destroyed this year more than doubled last year's total, according to Police Lt. Aung Myat Soe of Yangon's Anti-Narcotics Police Force.
The burn highlights Burma's entrenched position as one of the world's largest producers of heroin and methamphetamine, a status experts say has only deepened since the military seized power in 2021.
Scale and Scope of the Incineration In Yangon alone, authorities torched $321 million worth of 31 distinct drug types, Aung Myat Soe said.
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