Meet the Stans. Tajikistan

Description

Sharing an 800-mile border with Afghanistan, which provides 90% of Europe's heroin, Tajikistan is one of the world's biggest drug trafficking routes. Simon joins a drugs raid, visits a warehouse with £100 million worth of heroin, and gets drunk with the conscripts who survive on just 5 dollars a month while patrolling the Afghan border, one of the most dangerous in the world.

Runtime

40 min

Series

Geography

Genre

Date of Publication

2003

Database

Alexander Street

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