Khun Sa spends longtime in the jungle to do what he wants to be and has acheieved his purpose
His main purposes (1) to expel the white Chinese, the Kumingtong Force led Gen. Lee and Gen. Duon, (2) to control the whole opium trade and (3) to build his own empier in the Shan State solely. That is not meant fighting for the Freedom of the Shan State but he declares the World that he is Patriotic Fighter for the autonomy of the Shan people who are being under pressure of the Burmese Ruler for decades .Due to his purpose, he trys to build a small armed force folowing his militant experience in KMT (The Kumingtong army) which involed the opium trade hugely and tried to build its empire in the Shan State after defeated by the Communist in 1949. Khun Sa is the native of Loimaw township situated on the western bank of the Salwin river. Loimaw had to bear the brunt of this unexpected foreign invasion.Local people were conscripted for labour and military service, taxes were levied on them and they were subjected to harsh,lawless rule. One day the KMT armed troops took his grandfather’s horses and mules. Khun Sa can still recall his grandfather ,eyes filled with tears, as he directed his grandson to show the KMT personel present at the occasion, the designated packsaddle for each of the mules. The his resolved him to regard the KMT as foreigners and enemies to be driven from the motherland. He then organized an anti force from his boyhood friends and staged on a raid one erly dawn on an unsuspecting KMT unit. The surprise seem to be total because he managed to acquire 30 assorted weapons from this sihgle adventure. The KMT quickly moved to put his grandfather in custudy and demand the return of the weapons .Consequently, the young rebel had to free for his life into urban districts. The bittter experience that he had witnessed under foriegn occupation. After a ten years trail period led him to form a clandestine underground movement on New Year’ s Day, 1960. Col. Mong Shwe, the Burmese commander of the Eastern Strategic command (Shan State), who on 6 January 1960, offered him the status of a volunteer militia chief and a free hand in the build - up of his strength in return for his pledge to fight the KMT and commnist party of Burma (CPB). He accepted the offer. His strength, supported by the local merchants who were by nature averse to socialism,gradually grew and by 1963 spread to Kengtung,which borders with Laos. Khun Sa named his armed force as Shan United Army (SUA). The KMT joined the CPB force attacked the SUA in the following year but failed to destroy him. The KMT used a different strategem which turned to be unfortunately effective as subsequent events proved.
