Between February and April 2003 the Thai government started a ‘war on drugs' with the aim of ‘eradicating all drugs in Thailand' in time for the then prime minister Thaskin Shinawata's birthday. This brutal pogrom against drug users resulted in the deaths of 2,819 people and the forced detention of tens of thousands more.

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