Yangon's neglected Drug Elimination Museum
Opened to great fanfare by the military government in 2001, the Drug Elimination Museum is a relic of the junta's failed attempts to curb opium production in Myanmar's share of the Golden Triangle. Rundown, dilapidated, averaging less than 10 visitors a day and seemingly forgotten by the new government, its dedicated staff have nonetheless worked tirelessly to preserve its exhibits.
BURMA BITES #14: Alternative Tourist Attractions - DRUG ELIMINATION MUSEUM (Gems of Yangon 2/3)
Welcome to Burma Bites, a video series offering bitesize insights into the country, culture and cuisine. Coming from Yangon, David Zaw will introduce his homeland to you...
In these alternative tourist attractions videos we will get a local's guide to places to visit in Yangon that a lot of tourists miss. David will introduce you to unique places in the city that all offer alternative insights into Myanmar (Burma).
Музей наркотиков, Янгон, Мьянма (Drug Elimination Museum, Yangon, Myanmar)
Музей ликвидации наркотиков, Янгон, Мьянма, конец декабря 2014 г.
Museum opens to highlight efforts to tackle illicit drug trade.
Yangon, Myanmar
1. Wide shot women's marching band outside museum
2. Marching band outside museum
3. Armed guard
4. Lt-General Khin Nyunt arrives at event
5. Myanmar national flag flying at event
6. Khin Nyunt unveils plaque by remote control
7. Plaque unveiled
8. Wide shot Khin Nyunt makes speech with museum in background
9. Close up Khin Nyunt making speech
10. Foreign guests
11. Myanmar guests
12. SOUNDBITE: (Burmese) Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, Secretary-One of Military Government
The museum will record faithfully and show vividly how opium and opium cultivation was introduced here by colonialists, how the acts of unscrupulous elements who with political motives exacerbated the situation and how, under the guidance of successive governments the people of Myanmar has been fighting endlessly to eradicate permanently the dark shadow of narcotics.
13. Tableau of figures, showing colonialists and Myanmarese from 17th century
14. Tableau showing figures of an Englishman in old-fashioned clothes talking to Myanmar man
15. Tableau showing Myanmar King reading out an edict forbidding drugs
16. Various historical photos of Kuo Min Tang forces training inside Myanmar territory
17. Opium pipes on display
18. Containers of heroin
19. Painting of junta generals waving
20. Various of waxwork figure of Khin Nyunt chopping down opium poppies
21. Khin Nyunt walks over to look at his own figure
22. Khin Nyunt and group walk through museum
23. Various Lo Hsing-han, one of the first major heroin barons in the Golden Triangle, walks through museum
24. Large photo display on wall
25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Col. Kyaw Thein, Myanmar Narcotics Suppression
We want to let the world that we are very much committed in our efforts in drugs elimination and we will be striving much more and putting more efforts in these counter narcotics measures.
26. Khin Nyunt walks through museum
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27. Workers unload drugs
28. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra holds up methamphetamine pill
29. Police watch
30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thaksin Shinawatra, Thai Prime Minister
I think it's much better than nothing. I think they have a very strong determination to cooperate with us.
31. Mechanical dumper tips drugs into incinerator
32. Smoke from chimney
STORYLINE:
The government of Myanmar has answered back at accusations that it is complicit in the drugs trade by opening a museum which puts its side of the story.
More opium and heroin are produced in Myanmar than anywhere else in the world.
The Drug Elimination Museum points the finger of blame squarely at what the government calls colonialists and unscrupulous powers who first brought narcotics to the country and praises the efforts of the military junta to stamp them out.
The government certainly wanted this event to be noticed.
After years of accusations that it was a narco-state, conniving in and profiting from the drugs' trade, this was an opportunity to answer back.
The powerful intelligence chief Lt-General Khin Nyunt was on hand to open the museum which he said would stand as a reminder to future generations how Myanmar fought against narcotics.
In a speech, he appealed to the international community to help them find a solution to the problem, and refrain from laying blame on nations or individuals.
Myanmar is now the biggest producer of opium and heroin in the world after the Taliban wiped out Afghanistan's crop.
Khin Nyunt pledged Myanmar would strive for total elimination of opium by the year 2015, with or without international help.
He also stressed the foreign origins of the narcotics problem.
The historical guilt of foreigners is a theme of the museum.
Old photographs single out the Kuo Min Tang for blame.
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The Myanmar National Museum (NPT)
Today I visited the newly opened Myanmar National Museum. Mind you, there's already a National Museum in Yangon, but from what i've heard, it's rather dingy and run down. Not so for the Naypiytaw version! Interesting. Very well presented. Interactive and educational. Even the signs were done well; the English was perfect.
BURMA BITES #13: Alternative Tourist Attractions - THE PEGU CLUB (Hidden Gems of Yangon 1/3)
Welcome to Burma Bites, a video series offering bitesize insights into the country, culture and cuisine. Coming from Yangon, David Zaw will introduce his homeland to you...
In these alternative tourist attractions videos we will get a local's guide to places to visit in Yangon that a lot of tourists miss. David will introduce you to unique places in the city that all offer alternative insights into Myanmar (Burma).
Anti-drug Policy Seminar in Yangon
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Dagon City developers say work won't stop
The under-pressure developers of a controversial thirty million dollar housing and commercial district in Rangoon say work will not stop.
Drug seizures reach record high in east Asia
A new UN report says seizures of crystal meth and methamphetamine pills reached record highs in East and Southeast Asia last year. The amount of drugs seized rose by 59 percent from a year earlier, and much of it originates in Myanmar. Al Jazeera's Florence Looi reports from Yangon.
Myanmar - A Vist to Inlay Region
Inlay region, which are one of the interesting places in Myanmar. And, Inlay region teems with exotic sights, natural beauties spellbinding sceneries.
Inlay Lake is situated in Nyaung Shwe Township, Southern Shan State. You can go there via Shwe Nyaung, on Yangon-Taunggyi road. From Shwe Nyaung, it takes 30 minutes to Nyaung Shwe. Then, you can travel by motorboat, from Nyaung Shwe to Inlay Lake. You can also study Shwe Yan Pyay Monastery, on Shwe Nyaung --Nyaung Shwe road. You can pay homage to the Buddha images there, which are ancient architectures. Visitors from local and abroad are studying in the monastery, as it is decorated with ancient handicrafts and fine arts.
Бирма, Янгон 2013 Yangon, Burma
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Thoughts on Myanmar
A bit of a different video, here are my thoughts on my recent trip to Myanmar, and a bit of advice for anyone planning to go.
Also check out part 2 which has stories of our trip to Myanmar.
Cassie's Blog:
and her post about the build up to going away:
Hostels
Yangon:
Bagan:
Attractions
Yangon:
Shwedagon Pagoda (8000 Kyat)
Drug Elimination Museum (3000 Kyat)
Circle Line (about 300 - 500 Kyat [can't quite remember!])
Bagan:
Rented bikes for the day (2500 Kyat) (across the street from hostel)
Shared taxi to Mt. Popa (10000 Kyat) (arranged through hostel)
Food
Yangon:
Off the Beaten Track:
Green Bubble:
19th Street BBQ, unsure of restaurant name
The coffee club:
Bagan:
Great Restaurant & Kyaw Kitchen II, both on the main street in New Bagan, near Black Rose, but I can't find a link or any reviews for them
Black Rose:
7 Sisters:
Feel free to ask any questions, and I will answer them as well as I can
+4:3 Funeral for former drugs lord turned business tycoon
Yangon - 17 July 2013
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1. Funeral cortege for drug warlord Lo Hsing Han, with vehicle carrying large photo of him
2. Coffin being lowered into ground
3. Wide of funeral
4. Pallbearers throwing earth on coffin
5. Close of toy weapon and paper dolls of Shan soldiers
6. Wide of family members at end of funeral
7. Mourners burning symbolic items on pyre, according to the traditional belief that they represent bodyguards which Lo would have in the afterlife
8. Close of pyre
FILE: Yangon - June 2001
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9. Various of Lo Hsing Han walking around Narcotics Museum on its opening day
STORYLINE:
One of the world's biggest drug traffickers was buried in Myanmar on Wednesday.
Lo Hsing Han was once considered so powerful that US authorities dubbed him the Godfather of Heroin.
He died earlier this month in Yangon. He was 80.
About 500 mourners joined the funeral ceremony in a rain-swept Yangon.
Among them were family members and business associates.
Government figures sent wreaths.
Experts claim Lo got involved in the drugs trade during the 1960s when he headed a pro-government militia to fight communist insurgents.
In return, they say, he was granted the right to traffic opium and heroin.
In the 1990s, he set up a conglomerate - allegedly as a front for his ongoing dealings in the drug trade, experts say.
He became one of the country's biggest tycoons, winning contracts to run ports, build highways and oversee airport operations.
He was slapped with financial sanctions by the US government in 2008.
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Opium poppies destroyed in puplic ceremony
1. Wide shot of ceremony to launch drug burning event, with government official making speech and banner reading 'Amazing life without drugs'
2. Mid shot of bottles of Phensedyl (codeine-based cough syrup often abused) lined up on ground to form letters
3. Steamrollers lined up in readiness to crush bottles
4. Steamrollers driving over bottles and crushing them
5. Officials raking up remains of crushed bottles
6. Smoke from dugs being burnt rising from incinerator
7. Wide shot of ceremony ground with smoke rising from incinerator chimney
8. Chimey and smoke seen rising above marquee containing stacks of drugs
9. Khin Nyunt (right of shot), one of Myanmar's ruling generals, arriving at ceremony
10. Mid shot of Khin Nyunt watching proceedings from marquee - zooms in on face
11. Wide shot of Khin Nyunt and other officials watching ceremony
12. Various of plastic packets of confiscated drugs with labels on them stacked on tables under marquee
13. Line of guards
14. US military attaches watching as official tests drugs - pulls out
15. Close-up of tray with drug being tested in plastic packet
16. Various of foreign observers looking at display describing drug eradication efforts in Myanmar
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Head of UNDCP (United Nations Drug Control Programme) in Myanmar
It is a very good effort. It is a very good step in the right direction, but you don't need one step, you need one thousand steps.
18. Various of foreign military dignitaries in audience watching drugs being destroyed
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Win Aung, head of Myanmar's drug control programme
Accepting our delegation to the United States may be a sign... that they (Americans) are looking for ways to cooperate or give assistance to our country.
20. Wide shot of ceremony ground
21. Mid shot of banner reading 'HIV/AIDS'
22. Wide shot of balloons and banners above ceremony ground
STORYLINE:
Myanmar's military junta on Wednesday claimed it was winning the war against drugs, as it set fire to more than a (b) billion US dollars worth of illicit narcotics and stimulants in a public ceremony in Yangon.
With banners, balloons, coloured bunting and a school marching band, the burning - to mark the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking - seemed like a festive occasion.
In a symbolic gesture, three steamrollers were used to crush bottles of codeine, while more than three tons of opium, almost 35 (m) million amphetamine tablets and sack-fulls of other drugs were incinerated.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is the world's biggest producer of opium and its derivative, heroin, and in recent years has also become a major source of methamphetamine, the illegal stimulant sometimes called ice.
The event, the 16th public drug burning since 1990, was attended by Khin Nyunt, one of the country's ruling generals, and various foreign observers.
A government statement said greater success in eradicating drugs could be achieved with more international aid, which is now denied them because of the West's disapproval of the country's authoritarian regime.
But US narcotics officials remain skeptical, citing the continued existence of powerful drug lords in border areas of Myanmar, many of whom - it is suspected - collude with military officials.
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Burma's ancient temple city faces modern danger
By AFP
The spires of Bagan have survived wars, earthquakes and centuries of tropical sun, but in recent years Burma's ancient capital has faced a distinctly modern threat - scaffolding and cement.
TOP 10 Things to do in Yangon, Myanmar!!!
Hi!!
My name is Yukimin, from Tokyo Japan.
I visited Yangon, Myanmar in December 2018, it was VERY good experience!
I would like to express my thanks to Myanmar and Burmese people and made this video.
Burmese people were very kind to me and I made special memories.
Thank you so much:)
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