It is common knowledge here that for several years a group of villages rear Chinghua, now. known 25 Poa, has been a centre of the drug tram While banditry and kidnapping organically may not always be related to the drug traffic, those who promote of condone the sale of narcotics are touch with the worst elements in society.
For a-number of years it has been Increasingly difficult for farmers to make 2 living. Taxes constantly are going up, and the people say that they Bet nothing from the government. Land through this whole region is very cheap, prices ranging anywhere from a third to a half of what it was worth ten years ago. Everyone feels that-the Government cannot do, or does not do, anything to give protec-ton for life and property, so the people have to devise means to protect themselves or else bargain for protection from bandits."
Whether there are extenuating citcumstances excusing Government in-
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