Rangoon division parliament demands crackdown on drugs
On 14 June, more than a dozen National League for Democracy lawmakers in the Rangoon Division parliament demanded that authorities crack down on big-time drug dealers and smugglers in the city, who keep evading arrest, citing the worsening effect of drugs on Rangoon’s youth. “One of the student’s parents bared their souls to me,” Aye Aye Mar representing Lanmadaw Township said. “They told me that first the students consume the drugs but later they became drug distributors.” Col Tin Aung Tun, Rangoon Division’s security and border affairs minister, told the divisional parliament that 18 large-scale drug traders are currently on the run. He said that counter narcotics police are working with Interpol to arrest them.
