Drug Trafficking And Terror Groups
The General Assembly of the United Nations issued a declaration on December 9, 1994 on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism as it was concerned about the growing links between terrorist groups and drug traffickers. It is well known fact that most drug trafficking groups have their own paramilitary gangs that have no problems resorting to any type of violence.
Although most people might dispute this but there is a strong link between drug trafficking and terrorist groups around the world. In nearly 30 countries around the world, there is beyond doubt that there is a link between armed conflicts going on in those countries and drug trafficking. Many terrorists groups around the world are known to use drug trafficking as a way of funding their armed conflicts. They do not just trade in drugs but the terrorist groups are known to cultivate, process, traffic and distribute drugs. They then use the money to fund their operations.
Many attribute this link between drug trafficking and terror groups to the end of Cold War. After the Cold War ended, state-supported terrorism started declining and many terrorist groups had to start looking for alternate source of funding, and they found that they found it through production and trafficking of illicit drugs like cannabis, heroine and cocaine.
There are many opponents to the belief that drug trafficking and terror groups work together. They think that each is group works independently of the other and there is no linkage whatsoever. They believe that terrorist groups are ideologically or politically motivated while drug traffickers are profit oriented.
But governments around the world that have a problem of narco-terrorism believe that there is strong and undisputable link between drug traffickers and terror groups.
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