Pubdate: Tue, 27 Jun 2000
Source: Blade, The (OH)
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DEALERS EXECUTED AS CHINA OBSERVES ANTI-DRUG DAY

BEIJING---China marked U.N. anti-drug day yesterday by executing dealers,
torching narcotics and publicly acknowledging the inroads drugs are making
among Chinese, particularly the young.

Those executed included three drug traffickers from Taiwan, a Hong Kong
resident, two Shanghai heroin dealers, four dealers in the northern province
of Shaanxi. three farmers in china's drug afflicted southwest and four
manufacturers of methamphetamine, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
China executed at least 38 drug traffickers last week.
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