In a ceremony on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, drug authorities burned more than 2.8 tonnes of ephedra herbs and nearly one tonne of other chemical substances. -- PHOTO: REUTERSThe Straits Times
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June 2, 2009
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIAN authorities on Tuesday burned nearly four tonnes (4,000kg) of substances that could have been used to produce millions of metamphetamine pills, officials said.
In a ceremony on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, drug authorities burned more than 2.8 tonnes of ephedra herbs and nearly one tonne of other chemical substances.
The material, confiscated in a crackdown on drug labs earlier this year, could have produced 'millions of methamphetamine pills,' said General Moek Dara, secretary general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs.
He said if illegal drug manufacturers had successfully produced the pills, they would have been trafficked to countries around the world.
'But we cracked down on time,' he told AFP, adding that some equipment used to make metamphetamines was also burned.
Impoverished Cambodia has become a popular trafficking point for narcotics, particularly metamphetamines and heroin, after neighbouring Thailand toughened its stance on illegal drugs in 2002. -- AFP
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