Of drones, money and drugs

Landlocked, secretive and with ungovernable borders, Laos has become a sluice for transporting Made-In-Myanmar meth to the drug hungry markets of South-East Asia and Australia, where billion-dollar seizures are now being made.

“It’s coming in from over there,” Thai navy captain Sumnuan Kamdee said, gesturing across the wide Mekong, which bisects Thailand and Laos.Armed with M4 rifles and night vision goggles, his Mekong River Unit scours the water in speedboats in Nakhon Phanom, one of Thailand’s poorest border provinces in the northeast.

But with big money to be made, the narco gangs have carved new routes west and east – through Laos and across the Mekong.

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