Tasting the Teeth of China Anti-Drug Policy

Would China yield to the calls of Philippine Government to commute the sentence or grant a reprieve, at least, to three Filipino drug mules on the death row? The Chinese answered "NO WAY!"

The Philippines mourned the death of 3 Filipino Drug mules.

Yesterday, three Filipino overseas contract workers (OFWs) were executed in China following their conviction of drug trafficking charges. China cannot just ease up its policy on prohibited drugs, even for the sake of nurturing its harmonious relationship with the Philippine Government. With this, the Chinese government has shown once again its sincerity to level off drug trafficking and perhaps, free this part of Asia from dangerous drugs use. China displayed no less than the claws of long-time Maoist struggle against drug abuse and illegal drug trafficking.

Questions on the Philippine government's action regarding the issue pile up. Condemnation on the Chinese merciless policy was seen on the streets and heard in every Filipino household. The real big question then would be: Comes the highest form of prayer the Aquino government should  file before the Chinese government, was there any chance for the three convicts to come out of the death chamber alive?

Guessing through based on history, based on China's relentless struggle against drug addiction since the  British-American introduction to the country of the Opium, the favorite answer would be in the negative. China is the real "no mercy" killer of drug criminals.

No world government has ever succeeded in persuading China from slowing down on its persistence to impose draconian strategy against illegal drug sale, manufacture, smuggle, possession or abuse. For the Chinese, the tradition of mass execution of convicts of drug crimes has to continue until the world would see no more drug dealers or users.

China would never mellow down against drugs, and that's for sure. It has in fact the fiercest law against drug criminals that the possession of a minute-50 grams of Heroin is punishable by death. How much more for the 6kgs of Heroin that Elizabeth Batain and the 4 kgs that Sally Ordinario and Ramon Credo  each carried with them through their travel to China?

These hair-raising volume of illegal drugs were caught in their possession and they had no other strong reasons why these items were in their bags except for the denial that they knew nothing of the bag contents and the alibi that somebody had just asked them to tag the items along their trip. And that should be weak because every drug mule caught  and charged had used the same line of defenses, and the Chinese are not stupid people at all, same that the three convicts were not stupid either not to detect some hefty volume of hot stuff hiding in their luggages.

And several other questions should follow: Who asked them to carry the tainted luggage? Were they real close with the supposed trader to take the latter's excess baggage with them? If you were in this situation where a stranger asks you to carry something across borders, would you easily yield to such simple request, without expecting something just as to compensate your sweat? 

I'm not saying that these people were not innocent, but they must have shown enough reasons why shouldn't they be convicted and hanged? And in this case, they failed to convince the Chinese of their innocence. Hence, there could be no other way out but through the execution chamber.

Comes June 26 (UN's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking), expect another Filipino mule who may be rested in the lethal injection chamber, for this is the date when China has traditionally executed and sentenced convicted drug traffickers to illustrate its resolve in fighting the scourge.

Every June 26, China marks UN's International Day against Drug Abuse with mass execution of drug convicts and burning of confiscated illegal drug items.

Now, take and try the delectable bait of drug trade to China and taste the teeth of China Anti-Drug Policy.