US-Nato Invasion Of Afghanistan Sees Opium Production Soar

Thursday, June 22, 2017
By Paul Martin

Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
June 22, 2017

According to new figures released by FSKN, ever since the U.S.-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, opium production in the country has soared by 400 percent.

Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service say that the United States are to blame for an increase in organized crime and widespread deaths due to the fact that they are now the largest de facto opium producer in the world – with 90 percent of the worlds illegal opium coming out of Afghanistan.

Telesurtv.net reports: The head of the FSKN, Viktor Ivanov, explained the staggering trend at a March U.N. conference on drugs in Afghanistan. Opium growth in Afghanistan increased 18 percent from 131, 000 hectares to 154, 000, according to Ivanov’s estimates.

“Afghan heroin has killed more than one million people worldwide since the ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ began and over a trillion dollars has been invested into transnational organized crime from drug sales,” said Ivanov according to Counter Current News.

Prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, opium production was banned by the Taliban, although it still managed to exist. The U.S. and its allies have been accused of encouraging and aiding in the opium production and the ongoing drug trafficking within the region. Ivanov claimed that only around 1 percent of the total opium yield in Afghanistan was destroyed and that the “international community has failed to curb heroin production in Afghanistan since the start of NATO’s operation.”

Afghanistan is thought to produce more than 90 percent of the world’s supply of opium, which is then used to make heroin and other dangerous drugs that are shipped in large quantities all over the world. Opium production provides many Afghan communities with an income, in an otherwise impoverished and war-torn country. The opium trade contributed around $US2.3 billion or around 19 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP in 2009 according to the U.N.

Around 43 percent of drugs produced in Afghanistan are moved through Pakistan, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

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