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Wednesday 26 September 2012

Cambodia seizes over 50 kgs drugs in 9 months [A nation of drug lords]

Xinhua | 2012-9-26
By Agencies 

Cambodian authorities had seized more than 50 kilograms of drugs and arrested 1,104 suspects in the first nine months of 2012, the report of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) said on Wednesday.

During the January-September period this year, the authorities had cracked down on 524 drug cases with 1,104 traffickers including Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laos, Thais, Chinese, Nigerian, Korean, American, French, Norwegian and Filipino, the report said.

It said that the drugs seized from them including 29.42 kilograms of cocaine, 17.28 kilograms of crystal methamphetamines, 47,041 methamphetamine pills, 65 ecstasy pills, 181 grams of heroin, 442 grams of ketamine, and 2.8 kilograms of safrole-rich oil, a key ingredient in the manufacture of the illicit recreational drug ecstasy.


Speaking in a drug meeting on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan, NACD's Chairman, hailed the anti-drug authorities for their active busts and urged them to work harder to build a country free of drugs by 2015.

According to the NACD's statistics, currently some 1,524 Cambodian addicts of a total of 4,518 have received treatment to quit their drug habit. However, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated that the country has up to 46,000 people using drug, most of them are youths.

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