Selling drugs destroying people's life is a big no, no, Vietnam sentences 5 Chinese to death in drug case HANOI, Vietnam – A Vietnamese court sentenced five Chinese men to death by firing squad for trafficking nearly 8 tons of hashish in one of the country's biggest drug hauls ever, state media reported Saturday. The hashish — with a street value of $90 million — was seized from two containers full of blue jeans on a ship that arrived in the northern port city of Hai Phong in April 2008, the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported. A Hong Kong-based ring planned to transport the drugs from Vietnam to China, it said. A court in the northern province of Quang Ninh, which borders China, sentenced the five men Friday after a four-day trial. Vietnam has some of the world's toughest drug laws. About 100 people are executed by firing squad each year, many for committing drug-related offenses. The court ordered the hashish to be destroyed. More than $180,000 and 19,758 pairs of jeans were confiscated, the newspaper said. Sentenced to death were Lu Mingcheng, 52, and Wan Huilan, 42, both from China's Guangdong province; Chan Kwok Kwong, 52, and Ngan Chiu Kuen, 42, both from Hong Kong; and Ieong Chi Kai, 52, from Macau
They're executing five drug smugglers in Vietnam for transporting 8 TONS of Hashish? Bravo for them. The smugglers got their just deserts. Shame that they were Chinese. But I guess even we have criminals within our race. Who would have thunk it, eh? Maybe they should have used the insanity or psychiatric illness defense like this guy: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8430685.stm BTW, I wonder how many Chinese are executed in China each year?
You wouldn't want to get caught with drugs there. Another one to watch out for is Singapore. They executed HKese, westerners, you name it, they did it. Even China's drug laws are not as harsh compared to them!
