Sri Lanka President, Maithripala Sirisena has called for the death penalty to bring traffickers to justice.
Sri Lankan police personnel prepare seized cocaine to be destroyed under judicial supervision at a suburb of Colombo on April 1, 2019.
The drugs were seized in four raids between June 2016 and June 2018. More drugs await the conclusion of court cases before they are also destroyed under judicial supervision, officials said.Sirisena vowed to step up his drug war and promised to import high tech equipment to detect narcotics at ports and airports, his office said in a statement.
Following a visit to the Philippines in January, Sirisena said he wanted to copy President Rodrigo Duterte's strongarm tactics against illegal drugs. In February, police seized nearly 300 kilos of heroin worth $17-million, the island's biggest haul, while in transit at a Colombo shopping mall.
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