聯合翻譯 引用自 China Post http://chinapost.com.tw/guidepost/topics/default.asp?id=4382&pre=1&sub=3
President Thein Sein's spokesman, Ye Htut, indicated the decrease was linked to efforts to forge peace with dozens of ethnic rebel insurgencies that control the vast majority of the poppy growing territory. If Thein Sein goes after the rebels' main source of income, the drug trade, he risks alienating them.
But many opium-growing towns and villages are under government control. In Nampakta, authorities are in a position to crack down but have chosen not to. "When I first assumed this post, I said to my bosses, 'We need to take action,'" said a senior official in Nampatka who spoke on condition he not be named. "However, I was told, 'Mind your own business.'"
Though the government eradicated only about 12,000 hectares of opium poppies last year, barely half the total of 2012, Ye Htut said he is hopeful that future poppy eradication efforts — this time with the help of the U.S. government — will be more successful. He said sanctions imposed on the country when it was under military rule made it difficult to finance crop alternatives for poor poppy-growing farmers.
聯合翻譯 引用自 China Post http://chinapost.com.tw/guidepost/topics/default.asp?id=4382&pre=1&sub=3
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