China Delivers Justice in Golden Triangle

[Mustank]

For decades, the drug lords of the golden triangle has been operating with impunity

Now China goes beyond its territorial sovereignty to deliver justice to its citizens

It plain to see who is the top dog over there

The last I think any country did this was Israel

This is reported in straits times, but I can't find it in the net, so sources are from other papers

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/c...ow/19401569.cms

 

China flaunts cross-border clout in hunt for drug lord over Mekong killings

 

BAN MOM (LAOS): It was 100 miles downstream from China, on the banks of the Mekong River, where a notorious drug lord slipped ashore in the dusk into the hands of law enforcement.

 

Security officials from Laos arrested the trafficker, Naw Kham, but the international manhunt that led to his capture was organized in Beijing, by top Chinese government officials intent on making him pay for the killings of 13 Chinese seamen on the river, which has become a major trade route into China.

 

The bodies of the Chinese, the crew of two cargo boats, were found badly mutilated on the Thai side of the river in early October 2011. The killings, the worst slaughter of Chinese citizens abroad in recent memory, angered the Chinese public. Chinese investigators insist that Naw Kham was the mastermind of the murders.

 

China's search for Naw Kham, overseen by its powerful ministry of public security, was a hard-nosed display of the government's political and economic clout across Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, the three countries of Southeast Asia that form the Golden Triangle. The capture shows how China's law enforcement tentacles reach far beyond its borders into a region now drawn by investment and trade into China's orbit, and where the United States' influence is being challenged.

 

It took six months for China to catch Naw Kham, a citizen of Myanmar in his 40s, a man of many aliases who was at the center of the booming synthetic drug business in the Golden Triangle, once known for its opium.

 

What came next was quick: the authorities flew the drug lord from Laos to China, tried him in a provincial court and executed him last month in a highly publicized live television broadcast that captured the proceedings until just moments before he received a lethal injection.

 

The Chinese hunt for Naw Kham was methodical and unyielding.

 

Immediately after the killings of the sailors, the Chinese government invited senior officials from the three countries that form the Golden Triangle to Beijing.

 

There, it pressured the countries to participate in Chinese-led river patrols, intended to ensure security for the river trade. Meng Jianzhu, who was China's minister for public security, flew to Myanmar to meet with President Thein Sein, and Wen Jiabao, then China's prime minister, spoke by telephone to his Thai counterpart, Yingluck Shinawatra, to urge her cooperation.

 

It fell to Liu Yuejin, leader of the anti-narcotics bureau of the ministry of public security, to coordinate the three-country search. Like the FBI, the ministry operates more than 20 liaison offices in places around the world, including the United States.

 

Liu took up temporary headquarters at Guan Lei, on the Mekong River in southern Yunnan Province, and sent Chinese officers to the three capitals to work as liaisons with local officials. He was in touch with these officers every day, Liu said.

 

Naw Kham proved to be a formidable target.

 

He had operatives within the Burmese and Thai armies and the Laotian security forces, according to an Asian official who works in the Golden Triangle and who spoke of the delicate case on the condition of anonymity. To counter Naw Kham's web of protection, China was able to rely on contacts developed over the past decade from the training of more than 1,500 police officers in Southeast Asia, the official said.

 

China also had an array of informers

[Sozo]

Wandering how come these countries are so cooperative? Maybe, China PM tells them if they don't give their full support, TONNES of DEAD PIGS/CHICKENS/DUCKS will be flowing down the river

Edited April 6, 2013 by Sozo

[Goldbug]

change in leadership, must be never pay undertable money to the new characters in charge

[Rustyz]

The true big brother!!! Who don't sell arms and ammunition nor is the party funded by crude oil company

[Camrytron]

Wandering how come these countries are so cooperative? Maybe, China PM tells them if they don't give their full support, TONNES of DEAD PIGS/CHICKENS/DUCKS will be flowing down the river

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