Drug Creates Money for the Elite
Posted By admin on April 5, 2008
The Burma’s ruling junta has been cut the poppy plants in the rural area, but they left the Chinese opium field.They cut the burgeoning poppy in the poor communities where they allowed growing the opium for five years. But they demand huge amount of money for the tax from the villagers.
Those who cultivate the opium are poor people working to provide their family because the Chinese people are growing very much in the region. The Palaung villagers can’t afford for tax to the government. Later, they came and cut all the poppy plants what they see in their eyes even though it is burgeon of opium.
The Chinese owners confer lots of money to the government every year. That’s why they don’t dare to abolish the poppy in Chinese area. They will never eradicate the drug in the region they just rely on the opium Chinese bosses. It like they will be starved without profits from the opium tax. It is just a small amount of tax paying for the Chinese bosses because the opium that they grow in one year, they can exist for 10 years.
The year that government’s soldiers came and cut the field, the villagers were very poor. Some households were only relied on the cultivation. After the soldiers have cut all the plants, most people become hunger and poor. The people have one choice to be slaves in the Chinese field because they have changed their plot into opium field.
The government gave 5 years for growing and so many villagers cut down all the tea plants and grow the poppy instead of the tea in their field. They started to grow the opium and later the government came and cut the poppy they have grown. That was the bad year for the Palaung people. The situation become worst and worst.
The region is still on the opium growing as the government allowed. As the international blame them, they don’t care what the world pressures are. As they abolish the drug they just blame the villages that couldn’t afford the tax fee. They don’t say anything to the Chinese bosses who provide them annually. They are very calm for the Chinese bosses.
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