Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the opium trade
Beyond the dusty streets of Mae Sot, a border town on the edge of Thailand’s frontier with Burma, Lway Dang Jar shows me into a small yard surrounding the headquarters of the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO).
For the last two years, PWO has been carrying out surveys to discover Burma’s levels of opium growing, exposing the government’s complicity and highlighting failings in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s most recent regional opium report.
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