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Newsbrief:
Thais
Get
Drug
War
Help
from
US
6/20/03
Even as the Thai government
faces global criticism for its brutal spring crackdown on drugs this spring
-- more than 2,000 people were killed, with Thai police the leading suspects
-- the US DEA is stepping up cooperation with the Thai military, the Bangkok
Post reported. The Thai Army's Task Force 399, set up with DEA help
to combat drug trafficking, has set up a new unit in Chiang Mai to coordinate
information flowing from the DEA, and the agency will also provide intelligence
and anti-drug training for the task force and the entire Third Army, according
to sources cited by the Post.
Now, just two weeks after
demonstrations worldwide against the Thai government's murderous campaign
(http://www.drcnet.org/wol/291.shtml#thaidemos),
Gen. Surayad Chulanont, supreme commander of the Thai Army and creator
of Task Force 399, will visit Washington, DC, to meet with Gen. Richard
Meyers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss further cooperation
between the two countries in fighting the drug war.
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Issue #292, 6/20/03
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