Mon Resistance Group Launches Drug Crackdown in Southern Myanmar
An anti-junta Mon ethnic resistance group has detained 42 people in a sweeping crackdown on drug trafficking aimed at curbing rampant substance abuse among local youth in southern Myanmar, officials and residents said Tu
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