Bangkok Post : Drug convicts now hostages: "The five Filipinos condemned by Chinese courts are the latest high-profile indication of a growing, major problem. As this newspaper reported yesterday, seven Filipinos have been caught smuggling drugs into Thailand so far this year. They are among 116 foreigners and eight Thais arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport so far this year for cross-border drug smuggling. An astounding 75 of the foreigners were Iranian. They account for nearly two-thirds of all arrests.
Iran has become Asia's biggest supplier of crystal methamphetamine. Known as ice, it is a particularly evil, addictive and mind-altering drug. Gangs inside Iran produce the ice, hire or coerce the 'mules' and send them off, particularly to Thailand.
Typically, these mules carry three or more kilogrammes, probably on the correct theory that there is no big legal difference between a small or large commercial quantity. As with the Filipinos caught in China, as with Thais caught in Latin America and China, the Iranian couriers caught in Thailand have no human value to the drug gangs. They are criminals, but they also are victims.
The smuggling of drugs into Thailand has exploded in just a few years. The biggest source is Burma, where the pill factories of strongly connected drug lords such as Wei Hsueh-kang churn out millions of tablets for China, India and especially Thailand."
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