Kashmir and Neighbours: Tale, Terror, Truce by Atav Trkkaya

Author:Atav Trkkaya [Trkkaya, Atav]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351755696
Google: RSIuDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12T03:26:34+00:00

Chapter 8

The Narco-Link

Terrorism is a general threat to humankind. In spite of occasional decline in the number of incidents in some societies, fresh and supplementary varieties of terrorism also develop. Accompanying this comprehensive and far-reaching peril, ominous links between terrorist and crime groupings come to light. In the words of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former U.N. Secretary General and professor of international law, we are confronted by “crime multinationals”)1 The “business” of crime accounted for U.S. $1,000 billion a year, twice the size of the global oil dealings, and 4% of the international economy.2

As one of the new-fangled variations of terrorist modus operandi, drug production and trafficking have, not only “gone global”, but the drug trade is caught up with multifarious unlawful activities, including the following: terrorization of the cultivating peasants, illicit trafficking, illegal immigration, abuse of children as carriers and sellers, coercion, kidnapping, theft, extortion, torture, weapons purchases for insurgency, murder, massacre, smuggling of stolen art objects, unlicensed gambling, prostitution, turf wars among the sellers, and the like.3 Every stage of the “business” involves material and human costs as well as violence. The average terrorist, no matter what the other motives seem to be, may be more aroused by the enormous proceeds and earnings, simply “the fast buck”. After all, if car theft, a routine crime, had been a legitimate business, it would have ranked fifth worldwide among the 500 companies on earth.4 Illicit drug trafficking is designated, after the arms trade, as the second largest international business with an annual turnover estimated at between $300–$500 billion a year.5 The recognition of the threat of drug trafficking is evident from the decision to declare the years 1991–2000 as the “U.N. Decade Against Drug Abuse”.

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