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Article: Beijing police destroy drugs
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 4, 2005
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Beijing police destroy drugs
BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Beijing police burnt 224 kilograms of
drugs with an estimated value of 100 million yuan, or 12 million US
dollars, in the city's northwestern suburbs Friday, China Daily
reported.
The drugs, mostly heroine, ice, marijuana and pills, were
collected during raids against drug dealers and addicts in 2002 and
2003, it said.
The drug burning move took place on the 166th anniversary of the
famous Humen Opium Destruction. On June 3, 1839, Lin Zexu, a senior
official of the Qing Dynasty, ordered the destruction of about 1,000
tons of smuggled opium confiscated from foreign dealers at Humen in
south China's Guangdong Province. His move was ...