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This is an add-on episode from the last one that profiled how Myanmar has become the global epicenter of illegal drug production.

Horrific crimes have increased since the 2021 coup. The junta profits from one of the most perverse forms of human trafficking.

India and China have advanced their geopolitical agenda by exploiting the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar.

⁠https://www.unhcr.org/us/news/stories/over-168-000-rohingya-likely-fled-myanmar-2012-unhcr-report⁠

⁠https://www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2024-08-27/⁠

⁠https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/10/myanmar-military-forcibly-recruiting-rohingya⁠

⁠https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2024/TOC_Convergence_Report_2024.pdf⁠

⁠https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/junta-crony/family-friend-helps-myanmar-junta-boss-buy-arms-from-israel.html⁠

⁠https://www.justiceformyanmar.org/press-releases/jfm-calls-on-israels-attorney-general-to-take-urgent-action-following-application-for-criminal-investigation-into-cognytes-business-in-myanmar⁠

⁠https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/FFM-Myanmar/A_HRC_39_64.pdf⁠

⁠https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/china-supplying-weapons-to-arakan-army-armed-group-to-weaken-india-myanmar-report/articleshow/76741890.cms⁠

Rackets Podcast #26

This episode explores the geopolitics of why Myanmar is now the top producer of opium. Myanmar's military junta launched a coup in 2021 and it profits from this black market, along with other organized crime rackets. A massive humanitarian crisis has ensued from a regime that is guilty of numerous war crimes. Several of the rebel groups also profit from illegal drugs.

Show notes:

⁠https://www.briansaady.com/move-over-afghanistan-myanmar-is-now-the-worlds-top-opium-producer⁠

⁠https://2017-2021.state.gov/wei-hsueh-kang/⁠

⁠https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/hp1268⁠

⁠https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session56/a-hrc-56-crp-7.pdf⁠

⁠https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/myanmar-military-air-strikes-that-killed-17-civilians-must-be-investigated-as-war-crimes/#:~:text=Amnesty%20International's%20May%202022%20report,executions%20and%20the%20systematic%20looting⁠

⁠https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/myanmar-reckless-shipments-of-jet-fuel-continue-as-air-strikes-multiply/

Episode 25

***Breaking News*** Court documents show that the man who is accused of financing the assassination of Haiti's President, Walter Veintemilla, received the legal authorization for that operation from a confidential informant of a US Intelligence agency.

How much information did the US government have about this assassination before it occurred?

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037.754.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037.406.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037.150.0.pdf

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037/gov.uscourts.flsd.610037.3.0_19.pdf

https://cepr.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Coq_Norgaisse_Letter_CTU-1024x661.png

https://insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Report-Panel-of-Experts-Haiti_gangs.pdf

https://www.scribd.com/document/519042217/Press-Release-Intriago

https://www.briansaady.com/haiti-assassination-suspects-don-t-belong-in-a-u-s-courtroom

https://www.briansaady.com/did-narco-linked-former-haitian-leader-have-president-moise-assassinated