Drugs burning ceremony was made in the town of Kyaingtone in the Eastern Shan state, which was organized to combat drugs with the help of junta’s efforts. The prime minister of the country Thein Sein, several journalists, diplomats and many local people joined this ceremony of drugs burning.

The chief Brigadier General Khin Yi of national police said that they have burnt and destroyed all the drugs, affiliated paraphernalia and chemicals that they have seized. All these things that were burnt were worth about 93 million dollars (US dollars).

Since June, the drugs and its affiliated paraphernalia were seized in the state. The seized drugs include even more than 800 kilos of heroin, amphetamine tablets of about seven million, more than 156 kilos of raw opium and about 10 kilos of methamphetamine or “ice”.

The chief Brigadier General Khin Yi said that from now onwards the government will take law enforcement measures to fight the threat of drugs and try to reduce its production in the country. He also said that Myanmar fully know the fact that the country alone cannot handle, combat and eradicate the problem of narcotic drugs. Hence the country definitely requires the help and cooperation of international community. And for that reason Myanmar has called up the international community to help them to eradicate the problem of drugs in the country.

In the drugs burning ceremony, the junta and many other people has vowed to make their country narcotics free by the year 2014. They will follow a 15 year elimination plan that was made in 1999.

Since 1997, the ceremony of drugs burning was fifth in the Myanmar.