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|date=2012-08-15
|category=Report
|title=Post-war drug arrests surge from 19,000 to 40,000 in two years as civil war ends
|summary=The New Humanitarian (IRIN) reported that drug arrests in Sri Lanka had more than doubled since the end of the 26-year civil war in May 2009. Police arrested 19,000 on drug charges in 2009, rising to nearly 30,000 in 2010 and 40,000 in 2011, with 19,000 arrested in the first half of 2012 alone — on pace to match 2011's full-year total. Heroin and cannabis were the most common drugs seized nationwide. Activists pointed to lax law enforcement and political patronage as factors driving the apparently growing trade. The NDDCB operated four residential treatment centres (Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Urapola) but treated only 3,000 persons island-wide in 2009 — the most recent treatment data available — of whom 2,387 came through government centres, 522 through prisons, and 65 through NGOs. The UNODC 2012 World Drug Report noted slight increases in heroin seizures throughout East and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, pointing to expanding heroin markets.
|source=https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/96448/sri-lanka-upsurge-illegal-drug-seizures
|country=Sri Lanka
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[[Has event headline::Post-war drug arrests surge from 19,000 to 40,000 in two years as civil war ends]]
[[Has event summary::The New Humanitarian (IRIN) reported that drug arrests in Sri Lanka had more than doubled since the end of the 26-year civil war in May 2009. Police arrested 19,000 on drug charges in 2009, rising to nearly 30,000 in 2010 and 40,000 in 2011, with 19,000 arrested in the first half of 2012 alone — on pace to match 2011's full-year total. Heroin and cannabis were the most common drugs seized nationwide. Activists pointed to lax law enforcement and political patronage as factors driving the apparently growing trade. The NDDCB operated four residential treatment centres (Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Urapola) but treated only 3,000 persons island-wide in 2009 — the most recent treatment data available — of whom 2,387 came through government centres, 522 through prisons, and 65 through NGOs. The UNODC 2012 World Drug Report noted slight increases in heroin seizures throughout East and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, pointing to expanding heroin markets.]]
[[Has source URL::https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/report/96448/sri-lanka-upsurge-illegal-drug-seizures]]
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