Heroin Teens in Kazakhstan

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A remarkable film in which we follow the Kazakh police as they carry out a raid heroin smugglers and follow the fate of one of the young impoverished men they catch as he is sentenced and imprisoned for his crime. With full access to the police, judiciary and prison systems this pod looks at what drives these young men to become drug mules and what it's like to suddenly find yourself locked up, possibly for life.
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  • video added March 03, 2009

10 comments // Heroin Teens in Kazakhstan // Video

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    Amazing access to police footage Rob, and really well put together. Nice work old boy

    charlottegrace
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    Great work !

    Maeveeo
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    Wow, this is excellent footage. Impressive!

    extemporaneous
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    Very telling story about the heroin trade in Europe. Footage was great. Awesome work.

    CaptainTrips
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    Great work! I loved it and very informative.

    naty_forty
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    That was good.

    HatFella
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    Very interesting and informative!

    tursiops
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    what puzzles me is that since 2001 when the united states decided to invade the country of afghanistan the heroin production increased by 4...it seems that the same thing happened with cocaine in south america when our government went there to stop the trafficking in the 80's..we then had a crack epidemic...

    cheakywillie
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    If we truly wanted to fight the proliferation of heroin, we should have been more careful in our invasion of Afghanistan and support for President Hamid Karzai's Kabul-based government. The reality is that most of the heroin from Central Asia is consumed in Europe, so I doubt it was ever a big concern for the Washington war cabinet.

    As Karzai has struggled to shore up power, he has formed an unholy alliance with drug lords and warlords outside Kabul and purposefully turned a blind eye to the production and trafficking of heroin, such that there is now a glut (more "H" than addicts know what to do with it!) and it forms a third of the country's gross domestic product.

    As Karzai is poised to avoid a run-off and win re-election, despite accounts of massive vote fraud and ballot-stuffing, the Obama Administration should think twice about committing more resources to protect him and his opium syndicates from the inevitable backlash. We've made this tactical error many times in the past.

    Of course, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

    Peace.

    BlueDotProdux
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