NSTworld Sacks of heroin and methamphetamine are laid out in endless rows in a remote Myanmar border zone.
The seizure in one of the world's biggest narcotics-producing regions put three major laboratories out of business this week and hauled in 43 million meth tablets.
Seized drugs, vehicles, laboratory accessories and precursor chemicals are being displayed to be witnessed by invited military attaches and journalists in Kawnghka at Shan State. -AFP pic "Our soldiers are on the ground in areas of the forest the police cannot reach," Major General Tun Tun Nyi, a spokesman for the commander-in-chief's office, told reporters on Friday in a rare press tour to a murky zone of drug production and rebel wars.Shan State is part of the Golden Triangle -- a rugged wedge of land cutting into Myanmar, Laos, China and Thailand that is virtually untroubled by authorities despite its prolific production.
A crackdown in the same area last year was met with heavy artillery fire by the rebel groups believed to be running the labs.
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