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... Long Tieng to Vien- tiane , it was relatively easy to get the opium to market . However , the distances and security problems involved in sending caravans into the northern perimeter of the plain and in the Sam Neua area were insup ...
... Long Tieng to Vien- tiane , it was relatively easy to get the opium to market . However , the distances and security problems involved in sending caravans into the northern perimeter of the plain and in the Sam Neua area were insup ...
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... Long Tieng , where the raw opium was refined into morphine base . Meo army caravans had to return to Long Pot and repeat this procedure two or three times during every season before they had purchased the district's entire opium harvest ...
... Long Tieng , where the raw opium was refined into morphine base . Meo army caravans had to return to Long Pot and repeat this procedure two or three times during every season before they had purchased the district's entire opium harvest ...
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... Long Pot . With enemy troops threatening Long Tieng and his manpower pool virtually exhausted , Vang Pao ordered his villages to send every available man , including even the fifteen - year - olds . Ger Su Yang complied , and the ...
... Long Pot . With enemy troops threatening Long Tieng and his manpower pool virtually exhausted , Vang Pao ordered his villages to send every available man , including even the fifteen - year - olds . Ger Su Yang complied , and the ...
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The Consequences of Complicity | 1 |
The Logistics of Heroin | 8 |
Home of the Mafia | 15 |
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