Drug trafficking in and out of the Golden Triangle
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
in P.-A. Chouvy (dir.)
An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia.
The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources
in Mainland Southeast Asia
2013, London, I.B. Tauris / Bangkok, IRASEC, pp. 29-52 (69 000 signes).
Abstract
The Golden Triangle is the name given to the area of mainland Southeast Asia where most of the world’s illicit opium has originated since the early 1950s and until 1990, before Afghanistan’s opium production surpassed that of Burma. Although Burmese opium production has also considerably decreased after 1998, it has nevertheless proven to be geographically and historically resilient. This article explains in detail the emergence and the evolution of the drug traffikcing routes in and out of the Golden Triangle, as well as the anti-trafficking policies and actions undertaken by the regional states.
