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Khun Sa was a notorious opium king in Myanmar who fought for the independence of Shan State and co-operated with various governments. He surrendered to the Burmese government in 1996 and died in 2007.
Nov 5, 2007 · Nov. 5, 2007. BANGKOK, Nov. 2 — Khun Sa, the publicity-loving Golden Triangle drug lord who thrived in the region’s “kill or be killed” cauldron of ethnic rivalries and heroin-financed private...
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In the 1970s, 80s and 90s much of the drug trade in the Golden Triangle was controlled by Khun Sa, a Shan war lord who liked to dress in military fatigues, raise rabbits and smoke cheroots. The son of wealthy Chinese tea trader and an ethic Shan mother, he lived in his well fortified headquarters in Ho Mong village in the East Shan State in Myanmar...
In the early 1970s, as the Vietnam War was winding down and coming to an end, heroin exportation from parts of Southeast Asia controlled by Khun Sa, increased and the Golden Triangle became a major source for raw opium in the profitable "China White" drug trade, which picked up momentum in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, Khun Sa became a heroin suppl...
Bert Lintner wrote on Asia Online: Khun Sa was born in 1934 in a small village in Northern Shan State to an ethnic Shan mother and a Chinese father. He grew up as an orphan as his father died when he was only three. His mother remarried the local tax collector of the small town of Mong Tawm, but two years later she died as well. While his three ste...
In 1967 Khun Sa clashed with the Kuomintang (KMT) remnants in Shan State after the KMT attempted to “embargo” the SUA opium trade by blocking their jungle smuggling routes. Khun Sa started what became known as the Opium War of 1967, which resulted in his defeat, demoralizing him and his forces. In 1969, the Rangoon government captured him. He was f...
In 1975 Khun Sa’s SUA increased it influence in the Golden Triangle region. As the Burmese government broke the KMT’s control over the Golden Triangle opium market the SUA stepped in to fill the void.Kun Sa established a new headquarters at Ban Hin Taek in Chiang Rai province, Thailand. By that time the U.S. had pulled out of Indochina so there was...
Khun Sa commanded a force of 10,000-to-20,000 Shan fighters in the Mong Tai army, a private militia which was regarded as the last major revolutionary army to operate in Myanmar. It possessed modern weapons such as surface-to-air missiles, which even the Myanmar army didn't have. Many of the Mong Tai soldiers were in their teens. Thousands of Burme...
Bert Lintner wrote on Asia Online: “By no stretch of the imagination could Homong have been described as a "jungle hideout" - a common phrase used by the press in the 1980s and early 1990s. On the contrary, it was - and still is - a bustling town boasting well-stocked shops, spacious market places, a well laid-out grid of roads with street lights. ...
Bert Lintner wrote on Asia Online: “The stream of high-powered visitors to his not-so-secret headquarters never ceased to amaze observers.Among them was Lady Brockett, an American model turned British socialite, and her husband, Lord Brockett, who used to party with Britain's Prince Charles. Khun Sa even presented the lady with a pair of ruby-studd...
Khun Sa's reign came to an end in January 1996 when a battalion of Burmese soldiers advanced on his stronghold in eastern Myanmar. He had no escape routes. Rival drug lords and Wa fighters held the territory to the east. To the north was China and to the south was Thailand, both of which wanted nothing to do with the drug lord. Also by this time th...
In May, 1996, Khun Sa formally surrendered to the Burmese generals. He welcomed the leader of the Burmese army with Scotch and his representatives and those of the Myanmar government exchanged gifts, posed for photographs and addressed each other with polite honorifics. Khun Sa told Lt. General Kyaw Ba before a television camera, "If I have done an...
Khun Sa was a notorious drug trafficker and army leader in Myanmar who controlled the opium and heroin trade in the Golden Triangle for decades. He was indicted by the U.S. and faced the Thai army, but eventually surrendered and became a Christian pastor in 1996.
Oct 30, 2007 · BANGKOK, Oct. 30 — Khun Sa, the publicity-loving Golden Triangle drug lord who thrived in the region’s kill-or-be-killed cauldron of ethnic rivalries and heroin-financed private armies, has died at...
Nov 1, 2007 · Khun Sa, a former drug warlord who headed a guerrilla army once described by the U.S. government as the world’s largest producer of heroin, has died in Myanmar. He was 74.
Nov 8, 2007 · Khun Sa (Chang Chi-fu), master of the heroin trade, died on October 26th, aged 73. Nov 8th 2007 |. AP. PREPARATIONS for his surrender, on January 7th 1996, were something to see.
Oct 30, 2007 · Khun Sa was a charismatic leader of the Shan United army, who fought for autonomy for the ethnic minority group in Burma. He also ran a narcotics empire in the Golden Triangle region, and surrendered to the military junta in 1996.
