The East India Company’s steamship Nemesis is depicted launching an attack with rowboats during the Opium Wars. Image: Handout
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Dark legacy of Britain’s opium wars still felt today amid fight against drug addiction and trafficking
Greedy traders backed by military supremacy had built a global trade in addictive drugs by the turn of the 19th century, the effects of which countries worldwide continue to battle
The East India Company’s steamship Nemesis is depicted launching an attack with rowboats during the Opium Wars. Image: Handout