Opium cultivation surging in Myanmar under military rule
Dhaka, Jan. 26 -- Opium cultivation in military-ruled Myanmar jumped 33 per cent last year, reversing a six-year downward trend in the strife-torn country, a United Nations report said on Thursday.
The growth was "directly connected" to the political and economic turmoil in Myanmar since the military took power in a coup nearly two years ago, an official at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.
"Economic, security and governance disruptions that followed the military takeover of February 2021 have converged, and farmers in remote, often conflict-prone areas... have had little option but to move back to opium," said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC's regional representative.
A junta spokesperson did not respond to requests...
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