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10,000 take to streets in Beijing on anti-drug day
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-26 17:18
Some 10,000 people marched through Beijing's streets Sunday to support
China's anti-drug day, as the nation burned illegal caches of
heroin, hash and other drugs seized by police, an official and state media said.
Chinese volunteers
brave the rain to march against drugs in honor of anti drug day in
Beijing, China Sunday, June 26, 2005. Government said 10,000 people took
part in the march in the city's northwest.
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China Central Television showed police
in several cities setting fire to large urns filled with drugs, including a
cache of 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million) worth of narcotics in the southern
city of Nanchang.
Marchers in Beijing wore matching white visors and pastel-colored raincoats
and chanted slogans as they marched about 20 kilometers (12 miles) through
a morning downpour from the Summer Palace in the city's northwest into the
center of Beijing.
About 10,000 were estimated to have taken part, said a female official with
the Information Office of the Beijing Anti-Narcotics Office reached by
phone who would only give her surname, Zhong.
Anti-drug day is part of a renewed official crackdown on the illegal drug
trade.
There were some 791,000 known drug addicts in China at the end of last year,
according to the Chinese government.
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