It is both tragic and inevitable that the areas of India and China bordering Burma now suffer from those countries’ highest concentration of drug addiction and HIV infection., My own country, Thailand, receives up to 900 million amphetamine pills from Burma every year, and about a third of our regular drug users are below the age of 16. If this is the impact on Thailand, what about the young people and children of Burma, who have been restricted from access to education, information, and health care?
具有悲剧性，同时也不可避免的是印度和中国与缅甸接壤的地区成为上述国家毒瘾和HIV感染最集中的地区。我自己的国家，泰国，每年从缅甸接收多达9亿片的安非他明，我国经常性毒品使用者中，有三分之一的年龄在16岁以下。如果这只是对泰国的影响，那么缅甸那些被限制接受教育、信息和医疗服务的青少年和儿童的情况又会怎样呢？