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Eight druglords in Myanmar charged in US
25 Jan (AFP, Source) - Eight druglords in Myanmar were charged in a US court with operating one of the largest heroin producing and trafficking networks in the world.
The eight from the United Wa State Army (UWSA), a 16,000-strong group which styles itself as an independence movement fighting for an ethnic Wa state, were charged in absentia with the cultivation, collection and transportation of opium in a heroin-producing region in eastern Myanmar under the group's control.
The UWSA is one of the largest heroin producing and trafficking organizations in the world and was responsible for the production of more than 180 tonnes of opium in 2004, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
"Both the UWSA and one of the charged defendants, Wei Hsueh Kang, have been designated 'drug kingpins' by the United States government," according to an indictment unsealed Monday in Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York.
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