A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel...

22 December 2000 :

A court in central Vietnam sentenced 43-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Le Van Luen a former senior police officer, to death by firing squad for dealing in heroin, bringing the number of people sentenced to death for drug trafficking in 2000 to at least 49.

(Sources: South China Morning Post, 26/12/2000)

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