Drug agents ambushed Xaysana Keopimpha at Suvarnabhumi airport on Jan 19 and took him into custody for interrogation. Sirinya Sitdhicchai, secretary of the prime minister's Office of Narcotics Control Board, briefs the media on the drug trafficking network. (Photo by Somchai Poomlard)But the biggest tell about the last two weeks of front-page treatment of drug trafficking may be the dog that isn't barking. When Mr Xaysana was (literally) taken down and taken into custody at Suvarnabhumi on Jan 19, no military security was on hand. The drug trafficking that narcs currently put on Mr Xaysana's back runs from Laos to northern Thailand, from there to Bangkok, and then into the deep South.

Source: Bangkok Post February 11, 2017 21:11 UTC