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A River of Heroin |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: James Emery |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,092 Words, 14,018 Characters |
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The powerful narcotic flows from its Afghan source in two meandering rivers: a northerly one through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan and thence to Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Belarus before arriving in Europe and then partly being sent on to the United States; and a southerly one that stretches west to Turkey and then up through the Balkans and into western Europe's underground markets.
Most of Afghanistan today is controlled by the Taleban, a religious and military movement that sprang up a few years ago and quickly swept aside a gaggle of squabbling factions that had carved the country into fiefdoms.
Originating in dismal Pakistani refugee camps during the Afghan-Soviet conflict, the Taleban grew during the Afghan civil war between rival political factions foll...
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...he incentive and opportunity for smugglers, often wearing the mask of patriotism and making stupendous profits at the expense of thousands of lives.
Afghanistan and the Balkans are just two links in this undulant, invidious trade--a transnational, transoceanic serpent that eventually buries its teeth deeply in a significant minority of Europeans, rending the social fabric of the Continent.
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