TEKNAF, Bangladesh: Huge quantities of meth are seeding unrest inside Bangladesh’s refugee camps, as jobless Rohingya turn drug runners for a criminal chain that stretches back to Myanmar—and the soldiers who drove them out.

The little red methamphetamine pills, better known as ‘yaba’, that have got Southeast Asia high for decades are pouring westwards from Myanmar.

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