Kill'em All

September, 2003

Having exhausted conventional means of defeating drug traffickers and users--beefing up security at the border, firebombing crops, doling out hefty prison sentences--Thailand has gone straight for the kill. Literally.While serving as a conduit for heroin produced in bordering Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand also has been flooded in recent years with methamphetamine. With as much as five percent of the nation using "ya ba" ("crazy medicine"), Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat...