Chalerm warns drug networks of crackdown

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Chalerm warns drug networks of crackdown

DEPUTY PM UNVEILS TOUGH MEASURES

Published: 29/01/2012 at 03:03 AM
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Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has warned drug dealers and traffickers that they will face the full force of the law.

He said there would not be any extrajudicial killings as seen during Thaksin Shinawatra's drug war in 2003 that claimed the lives of more than 2,600 suspects.

"But if drug dealers fight against the [police] officers, we have to resort to protect [ourselves]," Mr Chalerm said. "Those involved in drug networks might be killed by drug gangs, not police officers, to cut them from the drugs cycle."

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crunchy
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Discussion 49 : 30/01/2012 at 08:27 AM49
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Bula Bula Bula... This is not about your Redthugs riot (armed and dangerous)... this topic is about your Mr. Thaksin Extra judicial war on drugs... And thank you Mr. Chalerm you admitted there was extrajudicial killings.

They should not arrest the small drug dealers..but instead police should make use of them as secret agent and point out where the drugs came from.
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Discussion 48 : 30/01/2012 at 01:39 AM48
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Skeptical spelled with a K
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Discussion 47 : 30/01/2012 at 01:35 AM47
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Thanks for admitting the deaths in Thaksin drug war were extrajudicial killings Chalerm .
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Discussion 46 : 29/01/2012 at 10:49 PM46
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d34: not sure that the families of the 2,500 innocent victims agree with your fugitive view.
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Discussion 45 : 29/01/2012 at 10:32 PM45
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Bula, Bula, when will you EVER come down from your cloud of denial?? You keep denying your red thug friends did anything wrong during their terror campaign on BKK, despite overwhelming evidence. Denying this is as ridiculous as the Nazis would deny the holocaust or Pol Pots regime deny " the killing fields"
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Discussion 44 : 29/01/2012 at 08:00 PM44
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It's a waste of money.
You can't stop the drug trade... The more you try, the higher the prices and the more attractive it becomes to criminals.
You can only reduce demand by educating people - and that's where Thailand suffers terribly. There is no national standard of education and Thais are resistant to change and learning.
The reason Thailand has a problem with drugs is that its people lack self-control - they spend and drink to excess... the same applies to recreational drugs - they abuse them, rather than use them.
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Discussion 43 : 29/01/2012 at 07:48 PM43
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Beer-sing where does this nonsense come from? AV did not order to kill 92 people! This people died because of violence instigated by the red demonstrators and no one else! During TS war against drugs more than 2,600 people have been killed not in riots or similar but in cold blood and mostly by authorities. This is a big difference but not for you it seems!
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Discussion 42 : 29/01/2012 at 07:36 PM42
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What is this discussion about? Drugs or who did what to whom and when? Everyone has their different point's of view on what happened and who is to blame. Stop it, and start to discuss what you are meant to be discussing here, and thats the drugs issue.
For once lets all agree to disagree as the issue will never be resolved. But the war on drugs is an issue which we should all unite in and fight.
If suppliers and dealers in drugs like to also live in a violent world, then so be it.They have no human rights at all. They do not respect others human rights.They just bring misery and drug related crime. Its the addicts, and non addicts which are being made to suffer. The cost both financial and in human misery is great.
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Discussion 41 : 29/01/2012 at 07:34 PM41
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Eliminate the competition part II
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Discussion 40 : 29/01/2012 at 07:20 PM40
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Any time something nasty has to be said, Yingluck hides in the closet and Chalerm makes an appearance. It is almost becoming comical.
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