-Caveat Lector- sounds like U.S. military narco-colonialism ... was Vietnam/Laos - now Colombia is the main target http://burma.net/news/ http://www.freeburma.org/ Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Roger Bunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Comments from the 'net? Subject: AUST.FED.POLICE TO BE STATIONED IN BURMA Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 02:06:08 -0800 What is this now, part of an international antidrug strategy a la Americans. Why not send in French legionnaires too? The Australians are sending the wrong signal to the Burmese people and to the world by authorizing a paramilitary support of the Rangoon junta. It shows their weakness of dealing with the drug problem within their own borders. It sends British-Australian military-styled detachements INSIDE Burma. This is a major setback to the freedom movement, and shows also the junta's inablility to deal with the drug problem because they ARE the drug problem. Why cannot their 400,000 man army handle the problem? Because the generals and military officers control and regulate the drug problem. They are using the Australians to do their extermination work. The Burmese leaders may finally have realized that to get foreign funds, with their treasury under 50 million dollars of reserves, that they have to do something radical to change, but this is the most stupid thing I have yet to see come out of the Austalian foreign office. Compared to the attempt last February to host the Interpol conference in Rangoon with international support of drug trafficking, now the Australians declare they are going in. Remember, the Australians were one of the few western powers to attend that February conference and defy the Interpol boycott...and this is what they planned to do since then. > > BURMA-AFP AUST FEDERAL POLICE TO BE STATIONED IN BURMA > DATE:23:50 09-Dec-99 > > Aust Federal Police to be stationed in Burma Burma AFP > > BANGKOK, Dec 9 AAP- Federal police will be based in Burma for the first > time to gauge the threat of a future flood of amphetamines into > Australia. > > Australian Federal Police official Mick Keelty said approval to station > a liaison officer in Rangoon from January for a six-month trial was > expected this week. > > "We've planned to expand a number of our overseas posts in strategic > areas throughout the world, and the opportunity has arisen for us ... to > trial the posting oa an officer in Rangooon," Mr Keelty, general > manager, national operaitons, said. > > He was attending a three-day conference in Bangkok of a regional meeting > of a national drug law enforcement agencies in Asia and the Pacific. > > Thailand has been a base for AFP officers, with responsibilities to > cover Burma and the flow of narcotics, mostly heroin, to Australia from > the notorious Golden Triangle region of Burma, Thailand and Laos. > > But there has been an explosion of amphetamine-type drug production, > with over 200 million tablets flooding into neighbouring Thailand. > > Mr Keelty said the officer's role "will be to facilitate inquiries on > behalf of Australian police agencies in Burma and to also identify > opportunities to cooperate more closely with the law enforcement > agencies in Burma". > > Australia is planning to assist the RAngoon government in training, > education and equipment to gain greater cooperation "to facilitate > enquiries for amphetamine type substances and heroin that is coming out > of that part of the world," he said. > > Burmese officials said the Rangoon government was determined "to fight > against the drug without or with any assistance from international > assistance abroad". > > "If we receive any international assistance we would be more successful > in suppressing drug production and heroin production, "the official, > speaking on behalf of Police Brigadier General Hla Tun, said from the > central committee for drug abuse control. 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