Lesson 2 Flashcards
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Golden crescent members
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iran
the number 1 producer of opium worldwide
Golden crescent
operates through Iran and Turkey and traffics the buik of Afghan heroin to Europe
The Balkan route
supplies heroin to the Russian Federation and Central Asia.
The Northern route
This region is considered a global hub for heroin and related opiate production and trafficking.
Golden crescent
Order issued by a Islamic leader
Fatwa
Fatwa enacted on?
July 28, 2000
Heroin use pattern in Afghanistan
War pattern
Refugees pattern
Social and economic crisis pattern
incudes people who began to use drugs as a means of escape from their harsh realities
Social and economic crisis pattern
one of the highest opiate dependency rates in the world
Iran
Was the most common illicit drug used
Opium
2nd largest producer of opium
Golden triangle
World largest producer of opium in the end of 20th century
Golden Triangle
In golden triangle, what is the single highest producing county of opium
Myanmar
Also called himself “ King of Golden Triangle
Khun Sa
Group from China that been expelled by the communist party
Kuomintang
What is the name of army created by Khun Sa
Mok Tai Army
How many percent of opium that came from the US
45%
Khun Sa describe by historian?
Alfred McCoy
Silver Triangle members
Peru
Columbia
Bolivia
Historican known to be major cocaine production area in the Andean region.
Silver Triangle
It is the place where the known drug cartels came from sudh as Medellin and Cali cartel.
Columbia
was branded before as “Second Government” because it houses international drug cartels
Bogota
is the single largest producer and exporter of cocaine in the world.
Peru