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[2] [3] The name "Golden Triangle" was coined by Marshall Green, a U.S. State Department official, in 1971 in a press conference on the opium trade. [1] [4] [5] Today, the Thai side of the river confluence, Sop Ruak, has become a tourist attraction, with the House of Opium Museum, a Hall of Opium, a Golden Triangle Park, and no opium ...
Myanmar is the world's largest producer of opium, producing some 25% of the world's opium, and forms part of the Golden Triangle. [1] The opium industry was a monopoly during colonial times and has since been illegally tolerated, encouraged and informally taxed by corrupt officials in the Tatmadaw (Armed forces of Myanmar), Myanmar Police Force ...
In 1999, Burma, the heartland of the Golden Triangle, was the second-largest producer of heroin, after Afghanistan. [142] The Soviet-Afghan war led to increased production in the Pakistani-Afghan border regions, as US-backed mujaheddin militants raised money for arms from selling opium, contributing heavily to the modern Golden Crescent creation.
The combined heroin and meth trade in the Golden Triangle is estimated to be worth $60 billion, with local production capacity “practically infinite,” Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC’s Asia chief ...
The Golden Triangle began making an impact on the opium and morphine market in the 1980s and has steadily increased its output since then in order to match the increasing demand. During the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, a retaliation to the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Golden Crescent's opium production took a huge hit, producing ...
UN World Drug Report 2016. Because of high opium-production levels in the past, the UN doesn't expect the decline of opium production in 2015 — down 38% from 2014 — to cause major shortages on ...
Remaining opium production shifted south of the Chinese border into the Golden Triangle region. [60] Despite the anti-opium campaigns in the 1950s, the issue of narcotics consumption resurfaced in the 1980s as a result of government reform. [61]
The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone is located along the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle area where Laos, Myanmar and Thailand meet. [10]: 103 The zone is midway (20.361150, 100.099807) between Houay Xay, the capital of Laos' Bokeo Province, and Tachileik, Myanmar.