Report | Recently you have interviewed a number of young boys and girls who have become derailed and started trafficking drugs. Now Make Report On It.
Cox’s Bazar Correspondent: 12 January 2015:
Alam (not his real name) a twenty seven year old Bangladeshi, smuggled Yaba tablet across Bangladesh from the Burmese border without the knowledge of Bangladeshi authorities for over six months. The only reason he decided to stop his involvement with the drug trade was that he was cheated by a partner. Alam said in a recent interview that he smuggled Yaba tablets from Teknaf to the capital of Dhaka because of the high profitability, and that he bought Yaba tablets from a dealer who lives in Taknaf.
Now , Alam has now stopped smuggling Yaba tablets since the fall out with his main authorities are becoming more alert about Yaba smuggling across Bangladesh.
Like Alam, many Bangladeshi and Burmese nationals have engaged themselves in Yaba smuggling from the Bangladesh Burma border. They are doing it as they realize the tremendous possibility for profits compared to working in normal, legal jobs.
According to different sources several Bangladeshi and Burmese nationals were recently arrested with thousands of Yaba tablets by different departments of Bangladeshi authorities in multiple places along the border, in Chittagong, and in Dhaka.