From seizure to sentence: Why Sri Lanka’s drug crisis still demands urgent government action
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By Mahil Dole Senior Superintendent of Police (Retd.) The scales remain unbalanced: intercepted drugs on one side, the tools of justice on the other, while families and the next generation wait for the system to deliver. The three months, f.
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- —By Mahil Dole Senior Superintendent of Police (Retd.) The scales remain unbalanced: intercepted drugs on one side, the tools of justice on the other, while families and the next generation wait for the system to deliver.
- —The three months, from August to October 2026, produced a stark set of numbers: roughly 22,000 heroin cases, nearly [].
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