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Afghan opium virus
The UN stated that this year a record crop of opium mac is assembled in Afghanistan this year, the United Nations and Crime United Nations ( UNODC ), based in Vienna, issued an annual report on drug trade in Afghanistan. It says that the crop of opium poppy this year was unprecedentedly large here, it is estimated at about 5 and a half thousand tons of raw opium, which is 49 percent higher than the past, 2012. These colossal numbers - one Afghanistan today produces more drugs than the rest of the world.
The report of the United Nations Office for drugs and crime states that in 2013, the cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan increased by 39 percent - if last year his crops occupied about 154 thousand hectares, today this figure exceeded 200 thousand. Opium poppy appeared in two Afghan provinces, Balkh and Faryab, which were previously considered “free of poppy”, in the terminology of the UN. Accordingly, the level of violence has also increased - if in 2012, as a result of clashes of government forces with peasants growing poppies, 102 people were killed, according to official messages from Kabul, then this year by November the number of victims was already 143 people.
Afghanistan remains the main supplier of drugs based on opium in the illegal world market. In 2012, 74 percent of the total opium in the world was produced here, and in Afghanistan itself the number of drug addicts using morphine or heroin is estimated almost in a million, says Jean-Luke Lemayo , the head of the UN Drug and Crime Office in Kabul:
- I would call the 2013 year when we watched in Afghanistan the growing of an opium poppy continuously grew with an unprecedented pace.
The authors of the drug report in Afghanistan say that the growth of opium is directly related to plans to withdraw from the country by the end of 2014 the armed forces of the head of the NATO International Coalition. In addition, next year the next presidential election should be held in the country. Afghan peasants, confident that after this, military -political chaos can come in the country, are very afraid for their future well -being and today cannot resist the temptation - in general, having no alternative to honestly earn a living.
In addition, the vast majority of all Afghan opium poppy is grown in the east and south of the country, where the positions of the Malibu militants are especially strong. They say that they are massively trading opium and heroin, the income from the sale of which helps them maintain constant activity. In the province of Nangarhar, one of the local peasants told reporters “Associated Press” (AP) that the Taliban established the so -called “tithe” in his village, which they call “religious serving” - out of every 10 kilograms of opium collected by residents, they are obliged to give one kilogram to militants.
However, Jean-Luc Lemayo recalls that the whole world is responsible for the growth of drug production in Afghanistan, and that this growth has a global effect:
- Of the $ 68 billion, the profit, which is brought throughout the world, the trade produced in Afghanistan opium, less than 10 percent remain in this country. 90 percent of all income from the sale of the drug goes abroad. Therefore, we should not forget that for this problem we all are responsible together.
The head of the UN Office of drugs and crime declares that the national Afghan security forces began to better fight drug trafficking. However, in general, the current government of Afghanistan is unable to independently radically solve the drug problem, says Jean-Luke Lemayo :
-The police fighting drugs in Afghanistan still confiscated no more than 3-4 percent of the total crop of raw opium. However, today they manage to intercept 11-12 percent. The opium problem of Afghanistan is like a virus causing rotting of the whole organism, which, with this comparison, is extremely low immunity and resistance to the disease, at the state level. As long as we all believe that there are easy and instant solutions, how to stop the production of opium in Afghanistan, we will be doomed to defeat.
The report of the United Nations Office for drugs and crime states that in 2013, the cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan increased by 39 percent - if last year his crops occupied about 154 thousand hectares, today this figure exceeded 200 thousand. Opium poppy appeared in two Afghan provinces, Balkh and Faryab, which were previously considered “free of poppy”, in the terminology of the UN. Accordingly, the level of violence has also increased - if in 2012, as a result of clashes of government forces with peasants growing poppies, 102 people were killed, according to official messages from Kabul, then this year by November the number of victims was already 143 people.
Afghan drug addicts. Herat
Afghanistan remains the main supplier of drugs based on opium in the illegal world market. In 2012, 74 percent of the total opium in the world was produced here, and in Afghanistan itself the number of drug addicts using morphine or heroin is estimated almost in a million, says Jean-Luke Lemayo , the head of the UN Drug and Crime Office in Kabul:
- I would call the 2013 year when we watched in Afghanistan the growing of an opium poppy continuously grew with an unprecedented pace.
The authors of the drug report in Afghanistan say that the growth of opium is directly related to plans to withdraw from the country by the end of 2014 the armed forces of the head of the NATO International Coalition. In addition, next year the next presidential election should be held in the country. Afghan peasants, confident that after this, military -political chaos can come in the country, are very afraid for their future well -being and today cannot resist the temptation - in general, having no alternative to honestly earn a living.
Heroin in Afghanistan is mainly consumed as part of smoking mixtures
Intervention in the situation of military personnel of the international coalition sometimes leads to the opposite effect. For example, one of the most record opium yields over the past years this fall (half of everything grown in Afghanistan) was assembled in the Gilmene, from where the British troops were going to leave, and after all they were posted here in order to prevent the landings of opium poppy.In addition, the vast majority of all Afghan opium poppy is grown in the east and south of the country, where the positions of the Malibu militants are especially strong. They say that they are massively trading opium and heroin, the income from the sale of which helps them maintain constant activity. In the province of Nangarhar, one of the local peasants told reporters “Associated Press” (AP) that the Taliban established the so -called “tithe” in his village, which they call “religious serving” - out of every 10 kilograms of opium collected by residents, they are obliged to give one kilogram to militants.
Cut -out undergraduate box of opium poppy
However, Jean-Luc Lemayo recalls that the whole world is responsible for the growth of drug production in Afghanistan, and that this growth has a global effect:
- Of the $ 68 billion, the profit, which is brought throughout the world, the trade produced in Afghanistan opium, less than 10 percent remain in this country. 90 percent of all income from the sale of the drug goes abroad. Therefore, we should not forget that for this problem we all are responsible together.
The head of the UN Office of drugs and crime declares that the national Afghan security forces began to better fight drug trafficking. However, in general, the current government of Afghanistan is unable to independently radically solve the drug problem, says Jean-Luke Lemayo :
Afghan boy smokes opium with his parents. The province of Badakhshan
-The police fighting drugs in Afghanistan still confiscated no more than 3-4 percent of the total crop of raw opium. However, today they manage to intercept 11-12 percent. The opium problem of Afghanistan is like a virus causing rotting of the whole organism, which, with this comparison, is extremely low immunity and resistance to the disease, at the state level. As long as we all believe that there are easy and instant solutions, how to stop the production of opium in Afghanistan, we will be doomed to defeat.