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Organized crime gangs are operating in the Golden Triangle where Myanmar, Thailand and Laos converge.
UN News: How are criminal networks able to flourish with such impunity?
Jeremy Douglas: They are basing operations in parts of the region that are autonomous or semi-autonomous, often in border areas far from major capital cities, basically in places where the rule of law is incredibly weak or corruptible and where there is limited authority to step in and stop them; in some extreme cases to areas which…
