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The International Narcotics Control Board's 2018 Annual Report, launched in January 2019, documented record cannabis herb seizures across South Asia. India seized more than 350 tons in 2017, while Bangladesh seized close to 70 tons, with cannabis remaining the most frequently cultivated, trafficked, and abused drug in the region. The report noted significant increases in opiates seizures in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and flagged that Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India were each considering expanding the death penalty for drug-related offences despite long-standing de facto abolitionist positions. The INCB urged all states retaining the death penalty for drug offences to commute existing sentences and consider abolition. The report also documented a thirtyfold increase in methamphetamine pill seizures in Bangladesh since 2011, and noted growing use of the internet as a drug marketplace across the region. +
Provincial deputy military police commander Colonel Nget Chanthy led a crackdown on 8 locations, destroying 4,168 marijuana plants over 648 square metres in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune. No arrests were made. +
Kirivong district police chief Colonel Yuk Sarath led raids on 6 locations in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, destroying 2,115 plants over 1,570 square metres. Sarath said police are tracking owners. +
News:2019-01-16/Enforcement/2-115-marijuana-plants-destroyed-near-abandoned-military-base-in-chroy-village-kirivong +
Kirivong district police chief Sim Meng led officers and commune police to raid six marijuana farms near an abandoned military base in Chroy village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune. Police destroyed 2,115 plants and are searching for the owners. Meng confirmed that "Preah Bat Choan Chum commune is known to be a hotbed of marijuana growing compared to other communes in Kiri Vong district." +
News:2019-01-16/Enforcement/56-marijuana-plants-destroyed-at-farmers-house-in-moung-russey-battambang +
District police chief Colonel Sar Kimlong led a raid on a farm in Moung Russey district where a farmer had planted 56 marijuana plants near his house. The farmer was arrested, cautioned, made to promise not to re-offend, and released. +
Kirivong district police chief Colonel Yuk Sarath led follow-up raids on 4 locations in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, destroying 1,124 plants over 744 square metres. +
News:2019-02-17/Enforcement/1-398-cannabis-plants-destroyed-near-radio-tower-in-chroy-village-kirivong +
Provincial and district police raided six fields totalling at least 979 square metres in Chroy Village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, destroying 1,398 marijuana plants and one water storage. Deputy district police chief Hiem Srim said suspects "would not stop planting cannabis around the radio tower in Chroy village, even after the crackdown." Growers escaped; commune police chief In Savuth did not participate. A 2018 national report showed 164,925 marijuana plants confiscated and 74.51 kg of dried marijuana seized nationwide. +
The Sri Lanka Navy discovered over 150 kg of Kerala Ganja concealed inside 5 bags on Urumale Beach, Mannar. No suspects were apprehended. Naval operations in the area were continuing. +
Hambegamuwa Police raided a long-running cannabis cultivation spanning one acre, located near a plant nursery used for cannabis seedlings. The owner was arrested. Separately, Udugama Police arrested a suspect with 500g of Kerala Ganja worth Rs. 150,000, believed to have been involved in long-term contraband transport. +
District police chief Colonel Kor Sunkaing led a raid discovering 730 marijuana plants intercropped among cassava on a farm in Samlout district. Owner Yeun Roeun (32) was arrested, educated, made to sign a contract not to re-offend, and released. Sunkaing said: "The owner planted them along with cassava because he thought we would not be able to recognise them." Roeun claimed he was "cheated by someone" into planting but refused to identify the person. The article also references a Preah Vihear case where a man grew cannabis to cure sick chickens and ducks. +
News:2020-01-24/Trafficking/telangana-police-bust-gang-smuggling-ganja-to-sri-lanka-from-andhra-4-held +
Mahabubnagar Police in Telangana uncovered an international smuggling network after a car loaded with 180 kg of cannabis (98 packets) from Sileru in Visakhapatnam district crashed into a lorry near Thatikonda. Four suspects were arrested; four remain at large. The network sourced cannabis at Sileru, transported it by car through Telangana to Madurai in Tamil Nadu, then to Rameswaram for sea smuggling to Sri Lanka. Police revealed the complete pricing chain: Rs. 6,000/kg at Sileru (Visakhapatnam), Rs. 11,000/kg in Hyderabad, Rs. 12,000–13,000/kg in Chennai, and up to Rs. 18,000/kg in Sri Lanka. Two of the arrested were habitual offenders with prior ganja transport convictions from 2009, 2014, and 2018. The gang had completed two prior successful trips before being caught on their third run via an alternative Telangana route. +
News:2020-02-01/Enforcement/180-367-marijuana-plants-destroyed-across-two-dozen-locations-in-kirivong-takeo +
Major Sok Sopha, chief of Kirivong district police's anti-drug section, reported that police cut and burned 180,367 marijuana plants across two dozen locations in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune. Police also found and destroyed 15 irrigation ponds near the plantations. +
News:2020-02-04/Enforcement/776-marijuana-plants-seized-and-grower-arrested-in-chroy-village-kirivong +
Kirivong district police arrested Phorn Moch (35) from Chroy Village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, while harvesting cannabis plants on a mountainside. Police seized and burned 776 plants and confiscated over 1 kg of harvested crop. Deputy district police chief Hiem Srim said police had been tracking the suspect for years before catching him red-handed. In January 2020 alone, Kirivong district police destroyed more than 10,000 plants across 24 plantations. Provincial anti-drug bureau director Mak Serey Vathana said officers are questioning the accused to identify brokers and the wider illegal network, stating "without brokers, the suspect would not take the risk." +
News:2020-02-14/Trafficking/bid-to-smuggle-ganja-to-sri-lanka-foiled-661-kg-seized-five-persons-held +
The Narcotics Control Bureau foiled an attempt to smuggle 661.5 kg of cannabis (310 bundles) to Sri Lanka via Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district. The consignment was purchased at Anakapalli in Andhra Pradesh, transported through Chennai and Viralimalai (Pudukkottai) to Vedaranyam. Five suspects were arrested — three from Vedaranyam (M. Selvaraj, 54; S. Aiyyappan, 35; R. Paramanantham, 35) and two from Thiruvottiyur, Chennai (S. Ramanan, 40; G. Thavamani, 37). A truck and two SUVs were seized. The NCB had been tracking the consignment from Andhra Pradesh. The report noted smuggling ganja to Sri Lanka via Vedaranyam was "not uncommon," with past seizures at coastal villages Arukatuthurai, Manian Theevu, and Kodiyakarai, where cannabis was loaded into fibreglass fishing boats for the sea crossing. +
News:2020-02-16/Enforcement/3-315-marijuana-plants-destroyed-across-13-locations-in-kirivong-takeo +
Kirivong district police chief Colonel Yuk Sarath led officers to 13 locations along the foothills in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, destroying 3,315 marijuana plants across 1,013 square metres and seven irrigation ponds. The suspect fled before police arrived. The article references the Feb 3 arrest of Phorn Moch and notes that in January, nearly 6,000 plants were burned across 15 locations in the same district with no arrests. +
Kirivong District Police Inspectorate conducted a two-day operation (February 21–22) targeting illegal cannabis cultivation in the area known as "the Green Triangle" — a reference to Kirivong district's complex geography favorable to the cannabis trade. Police destroyed and burned nine marijuana plantations covering 1,022 square metres and four water reservoirs at Dup Angk Sreng in Kirivong district. Two suspects were detained while tending a plantation; questioning and the search for fugitive accomplices are ongoing. +
News:2020-02-21/Enforcement/two-arrested-and-hundreds-of-marijuana-plants-destroyed-in-kirivong-takeo +
Kirivong district police conducted a two-day crackdown on Friday and Saturday, raiding illegal cannabis farms in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune on orders from Takeo provincial police chief Major General Sok Samnang. Police arrested Thun Loan (50) and Pun Hav (38) while tending plants, and destroyed farms across 9 locations covering 1,022 square metres. Four irrigation ponds were identified. Plants were not counted. District anti-drug bureau chief Major Sok Sopha noted several more illegal farms remain on the mountain. +
News:2020-02-24/Enforcement/50-kg-of-marijuana-seized-and-suspect-arrested-in-chroy-village-kirivong +
The Anti-Narcotics Task Force in cooperation with Kirivong District Police Inspectorate raided a cannabis cultivation and storage operation in Chroy Village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune. Vann Lim (64) was arrested. Police seized 15.05 kg of dried marijuana, 35 kg of fresh marijuana, and one set of scales. The suspect is being questioned for prosecution at the provincial court. +
Provincial anti-drug police and Kirivong district police raided 8 cannabis farms in the foothills near Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, close to the Vietnamese border, destroying approximately 15,000 plants across 2 hectares. A villager hunting on the mountain discovered the plantations and alerted police on Friday; the raid was conducted Saturday morning. Farm owners fled before police arrived. Deputy district police chief Lieutenant Colonel Yeng Bunsoeun confirmed the crop was grown for cross-border sale to Vietnam, and noted that despite education campaigns, villagers continue cultivating because the business is lucrative and they lack alternative livelihoods. +
In an opinion piece for The Island, Dr. Dineth Bandara argued against proposals to allow multinational cannabis corporations to cultivate in Sri Lanka, warning that cannabis oil prices had collapsed by over 75% since 2019 and the world's largest cannabis companies had reported billion-dollar losses. He contended that foreign companies were strategically expanding into new markets to recover losses, working through embassy trade sections, and that promises of billions in revenue were illusory. He warned that "protected" plantations would be impossible to secure, that Ayurvedic professionals were being unwittingly co-opted by the industry, and that the ultimate objective was to open the domestic consumer market through incremental regulatory relaxation — comparing the strategy to the British opium trade in China. +