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NEW DYNAMICS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION

Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle: One of the Largest Opium Producing Areas

Small arms support regional terrorism, armed conflicts and organised
crimes. They have become easy accessible and the cheapest means in
the sphere of violence. Lack of credible systems to account for small
arms is one of the key issues in the regional countries. Further, in certain
countries of the region, absence of law and order and lack of good
governance have helped for proliferation of small arms. There is enough
evidence to prove the links these weapon smuggling groups have with
pirates, human smugglers, terrorists, drug traffickers, document fraud ,
money laundering and various other transnational crimes.

Human Trafficking

The threats of non-state actors could emerge due to state policy,
state incompetence, state fragility and state failure. The state’s lack
of competence in governing its territory could create windows of
opportunity to raise non-state actors. The major drawback of this
situation is that some of the citizens of these countries try to escape as
refugees and asylum seekers as their homeland is unsafe to live. Most
often, the escape roots are through the sea. This creates security issues
as terrorists, combatants and war criminals can disguise themselves as

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