To India's East, The Surreal Rise Of A Narco-nightmare
To India’s east, the surreal rise of a narco-nightmare The surreal history of East Asia’s narco-kingdoms, as dark as any opium nightmare, teaches us what happens when authoritarianism, corruption and underdevelopment collude to bring about the implosion of polities. An anti-drug exhibit is seen at the Drug Elimination museum in Yangon, Myanmar. “Loyalty to the Heavens”, read the banner; beneath it, a man cried in pain as a blowtorch was held to his feet, hammer-blow jolts from an electric cattle-prod occasionally thrown in to punctuate his agony. It wasn’t personal: The man had dump...
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