20th Feb 2019,
By Richard SARGENT and Hla Hla HTAY (AFP)
Myanmar is now believed to be the largest source of methamphetamine in the world
Ye Aung THU, AFP
Mobs of stick-wielding church-goers in Myanmar's northeast used to descend on dealers and addicts in a desperate effort to save their communities from a meth-induced health crisis sweeping the country.
But anonymous death threats brought the vigilante operations to a halt.
"It simply became too dangerous for us," says Zau Man, leader of the local Baptist church in Kutkai, a town in Shan State scarred by addiction.