Thailand's spiraling drug problems were supposedly going to be eradicated by the Thaksin’s Government “War On Drugs” campaign. In actuality this gave the police free license to commit extrajudicial killings of anyone suspected of dealing in narcotics. The campaign’s official death toll was 2,500, including an 8 year old boy, but many human right groups dispute this number making it much higher. No arrests were made of big time gang bosses or high ranking officials, laying grounds for complaint the police used the opportunity to kill dealers who competed with their own narcotic markets. Or those they feared knew too much of the truth about who really controls the narcotics trade in Thailand and so silenced them.'Ya Ba' translates into English as Mad Medicine