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On Monday, drugs worth $179.5 million were burned in Myanmar as part of worldwide celebrations for International Day Against Drug Abuse. The state media, MRTV, reported that the destroyed drugs were seized nationwide. However, there is no specific information about the types of drugs or the locations where they were seized. The latest report from the United Nations (UN) revealed that opium cultivation in Myanmar, which is controlled by the military, increased by 33% last year, contradicting the decreasing trend seen in the past six years in conflict-affected countries. The UN sees this growth as directly linked to the political and economic turmoil in Myanmar since the military coup two years ago.
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