By Oguejiofo Annu
In the 19th century, (1839 -1842 and 1856 -1860) the British empire went to a war with the Chinese empire due to the fact that the latter had banned the sale of heroin and opium in China.
The British colonial trading houses, and banks owned the monopoly on heroin trading to China. They obtained it from their sphere of influence in the Indian sub-continent but especially in the territory later known as Afghanistan.
The opium war killed millions of chinese and lead to the virtual enslavement and colonization of the proud Chinese empire.
The British empire and its European cohorts won the won and imposed humiliating conditions of surrender on China. For one, China was turned into the largest drug zone on earth since the Europeans demanded and received free and unrestricted access to trade their deadly chores opium to the chinese population.
It was not until Chairman Mao Zedong won back the national sovereignty of the chinese people did China regain its pride, stride and purpose on the world stage. It was not until the Communist Party of China had rehabilitated, jailed and killed many drug junky victims of European imposed policies did Chinese people understand the word sobriety.
AFGHANISTAN AND THE GLOBAL OPIUM TRADE
Today, Afghanistan has a monopoly on illegal opium production. According to the UN there is an opium market worth $65bn (£39bn) annually in Afghanistan. This market caters to 15 million addicts.
Afghanistan produces 92% of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year.
It is interesting to note that when the Taleban was in power the penalty for illegal opium production was a lost limb or life.
Consequently, production of opium plunged under the Taleban regime and Afghanistan was barely producing a trickle of the world’s supply.
The United States and Britain are today the biggest consumers of heroin followed by European countries. As such British and US heroin traders are amongst the most powerful and the richest in the world. They have a notorious heritage stemming from the opium war of China and drug trafficking all over the pre-20th century colonized world.
The Iran-gate Contra scandal of the late 1980s showed the entire globe that the American secret service C.I.A. is one of the top drug selling organizations in the world. The British secret service M.I.6 and M.I.5 all share the same dubious connections to cocaine and heroin as the C.I.A.
Drug dealing funds the C.I.A.’s illegal political and white supremacist programs and activities all over the world including political assasinations, coups, kidnappings, insurrections, and wars.
THE 2001 OPIUM WAR AKA THE WAR ON TERROR
When the Taleban banned opium production and consmption in Afghanistan, American and British stakeholders suffered unbelievable losses.
This is a market of more than $65 billion dollars annually. A market controlled by a cabal of powerful traders who make wars all over the earth to ensure a their control over the flow of drugs. You plant too much like Columbia you get controlled, and you plant too little like Afghanistan you get taken over.
In 2001 American heroin traders association lead by the CIA, the M.I.6,the British and the American army attacked Afghanistan under the guise of stamping out 9-11 linked terrorism.
The notion that one of the poorest states in the world at that time, situated tens of thousands of miles away from Europe and America, without any airforce, navy or standing army could attack, and imperil the very existence of the western civilization is simply preposterous.
But that was the silly reason which was presented to the world at the United Nations meeting on the issue. The so called west got its way. It was given a blank cheque to launch a war against a defenceless people.
The American army and airforce kicked out the Taleban regime. In a few months, the heroin production was back on track. Drugs followed out liberally once again from Afghanistan.
When one asks what is America doing in Afghanistan, remember the story above and the pictures shown here below:
