Gandar Mount P.S.O

The prison in Insein of Rangoon, Burma and the prison in Xinjiang, China, there are abuses of due process and rule of law, are just the same.

Chinese Government and the Burmese Government used the war on terror as a front to persecute the politicians.

These trials appear to be no more than a ploy to opress religious freedom and ethnic minority groups.

To this day,execution take place immediately after sentencing, trails are totally closed off to any observers and still happen in total secrecy.

Xinjing is the only place in China where political prisoners are excuted and subjected to special forms of toture.

For instance, Peijing’s harsh pre-Olympic crackdown in China’s Muslim-populated far northwest Xinjiang region, in a closed trial of 15 minority “Muslim Uinghurs” on terrorism charges that led to the immediate execution of two of them.

The remaining are received life imprisonment.

The police had also killed 5 Uighurs men who authorites claim were part of a 15 member criminal gang allegedly trained for “holy war”.

In Burma, hundreds of politicians and students including women and Buddhis-monks have been tortured to death since 18-8-88, widespread political unrest in the country.

In Burma, Indians and Chineses, who bear in Burma, are really happy becaue they have never been involved with the politics as wellas never doubted to have been politicians or claimed to side against the Government and they only like to be in peace in line with the military Government’s policy.

But they are thinking about how to make money and how to save money.

For an example, they as the Burmese citizens and business-like bought houses,land and old factories at good location in Rangoon and Mandalay sold by the burmese.

Some of them moved to live outskirt city and the others moved to the small towns.

The Company was established in 1993 when Lo Sin Han’s son Steven Lo, who is being the key person in it’s trade business with companies in Singapore, was interested in hotel-business and housing projects as Gen.Khin Nyunt paved the way for overseas ex-pension in 1993.

Kuok-Singapore Ltd. Lo Sin Han’s Asia wolrd and the Burmese Ruler are also partners in the luxuious Traders Hotel situated in corner of Su Le Pagoda and Bo Aung Kyaw roads, Rangoon.

Singapore’s economic link with the Burmese is one of the factors for the survival of Junta’s regime.

This link is also expension of the heroin trade.

Singapore is being the Junta’s top business partner and largest foreign investor.

Steven’s wife, native of Singapore, operates underground and is contact for people in Burma to get their drug money into Singapore, overseas branches of Asia World financial activity.

As both countries continue to celebrate their complementary relationship is the powerful support to its booming billion dollar drug-trade.

A pattern Singapore’s investment in Burma open door for the drug traffickers, giving them access to banks and financial systems.

Junta and drug lords have been able to take advantage of Singapore Bank Law and Money laundering opptunity.

For instance, Junta laundered $400 million through a Singapore bank.

Singapore had become a major player in Asian comerce.

Wa chief Pao U Ho and Pao U Shan, the brothers, who in their young aged has been longtime in the Bumese Communist Party as armed troops commander, known as Red Wa Faction and attacked the Burmese soldiers frequently in the Shan State while the communists tried to penetrate into Burma plain via northern Shan Sate where the strong S.S.A force had been basing.

At that time the Communist leaders and the S.S.A had already agreed for joint-military operations against the Governmentis invasion.

About 1987, when the Communist defuncted, the Wa regroped and became the Reginal Defence Force strength about 1,400 troops under agreement of the Government.

But they rejected to surreder their arms because of not the political activists.

From that time on Wa had been able to expanded their opium-growth and porduced tonns of raw opium but did not have experience in refined heroin.

In 1980, Wa leaders met Wai Xu Gong, Wai Xu Lin and Wai Xu Yin, three are dubbed as “Wai Brothers” among the drug traffickers.

They fled Khun Sa’s MTA and joined the Wa through a middle man for the drug refinery, since then Wa youths are sent to Chinna to learn Chinese curriculum.

The youths have konwledge of Chinese traditional culture, civilizationas and well society.

They later became the businesesslike to work for the group.

Wai Xu Gong had been imprisoned in Bangkok charged him as drug trafficker, but he in luck managed to escape from the jail by his assistants.

Using a lot of money for the escape.

So that he dad been wanted among the Drug traffickers.

Pao U Shan has been also wanted.

Pao U Ho died of decease in August 2007.

Their permanent Headquartes is located in Pang Sang closed China border.

The top leaders in the Wa group speak Burmese, Shan and Chinese well.

Their partner Hoo ChoonTeing,also the drug mafia, was captured in Hong Kong last year.

The war on drug would nerver be broken again in the region of opium fields as the Burmese regiments are basing throughout the Shan State and have stopped stagging opium crackdowns and never taken action against major peddlers in their midst.

The Burmese special regiment is protecting Wai Xu Gang’s stockpiled million of methamphetamine pills in Doi Phoong hilltop linking to Tardon, Mae Ai boder of Fang district.

The Wai Brothers have vast lichee-orchard in Fang district.

Tin Guan Min was gunned down in a hotel in Kun Min City, China, and Sy Pao was shot dead in front of a hotel in Chieng Mai, Thailand, both are Wa tribes and Wai Xu Gong’s trusted drug agents.

They are believed to have been killed by Khun Sa’ gunmen about 3 or 4 years before the MTA surrendered in 2996.

He has been under good security by the Government authorities and not allowed to visit the Shan State and outskirt of Rangoon but allowed to do any business including Hotel, import, export and other legal business.

Khun Sa has been long time suffering from diabetes and blood pressure since in the jungle and used to be under medical treatment, therefore he has to be careful about his health.

He has to become the Business Guru in his partnerships Co. and it invests largely.

The Company named ASIA DA NA corporation which competes with ASIA WORLD co. belong to Lo Shin Han and Lo Shin Min (Go Gang Chinese and the brothers).

Lo Shin Han and Khun Sa had been the bitter rivals since in 1972 as the both tried to control strategic area around the northern Shan State.

Khun Sa abandoned the area later after moving to control vast area of Eastern until Thai Border due to Opium trafficking.

Khun Sa at that time disagreed any Chinese’s influence in the Shan State although Lo Shin Han’s armed force was named as defence force to protect the Burmese Communist aggression in the northern area between Goon Long district (closed the Chinese border) and La Shio district (the northern City).

Skirmish and heavy gun fightings had been frequently broke out be tween the both groups.

In 1972, British film producers Adrian Cowel and Chris were able to make a movie of heavy battles btween the opium groups in the jungle area of La Shio district.

The both withdrew armies when suffered serious casualty in 3 day fighting.

Adrian named the fighting as OPIUM WARLORDS and had already shown in 25 countries.

In Rangoon, Khun Sa and his collaborators are agreed to do drug business by the Governmernt

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The old-age Moe Haing died of diesease in mid 1995 (unknown date of his death) at his Mai Soong Headquarters has been suffering from depression and seriously stress for long time as his Shan patriotic fighters are under pressure of the Chinese army officers who obey the order of Fa Lung.

Moreover,he has been shocked when he was reported about the assassination of his men in frontlines.

But he has not been able to protect them even being the Chairman of the MTA.

He was given 5 million Bhat by Khun Sa, who needs Moe Haing and his senior politicians not to be involved with the MTA military affair, after being signed for the United Forces of the both sides.

Shortly after Moe Haing died, about 300 Shan soldiers under leadership of Maj Yod Suek brokeaway from the joined MTA Force and named his force as Shan United Revolution Army (SURA).

Maj Gun Yod called his force Shan State National Army (SSNA) as 300 Shan troops with full arms are under his command.

The 2 commanders built their bases in different areas and resurrected the prior intention that fighting for freedom.

The 2 Nationalists leaders as being the seperationists and never under the Chinesa commanders since the confederation have been trying to repulse the Chinese Haw army commando for drug-trafficking, who are doudted to have killed the Shan soldiers icluding captains (reported to be more than 100), and forcing them back to border to report their Bosses as the situation has changed.

There are about1,000 Chinese,some of them are sent to Taiwan for military training inorder to serve Khun Sa’s army and about 6,000 Shan troops originally basing in Mahindek borders with Chieng Rai to control drug business and to attack the KMT and the BCP but no aim for Shan autonomy.

Because of this, the Burmese army had never made any military raid in his border base.

The burmese instead raided the Karen Nibase in Mae Hong Son border and the strong base of Karin (KNUP) opposite Mae Sarieng border.

The both bases have decisively been attacked by the Burmese every dried season.

But Khun Sa’s Army has been attacked by the Thai army frequently as 40 times because of his notorious Opium-King.

He was accused to produce heroin and controlling the refinerry bases linking to the border ariea by Thai anti-drug officials.

Thailand is known as transit point of drug transportation to West.

Khun Sa resurges as to gain image of National Patriot, he joined Moe Haing.

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On 16 April 1977, Congressman Lester Wolf who was Chairman of the US House Select Committee on Narcotics, sent his emissary, Joseph Nellis to meet Khun Sa, dubbed by the US Narcotics Agency and the press as the Opium King. He promised to cooperate with the intercommunity to fight against narcotic drugs and submitted his six years plan. This was rejected by the Carter Administration on 18 July in the same year. His later diplomatic efforts also came to naught, on 21 January 1982 the Thai’s strong Border Patrol Police hired by the DEA, attacked his base in Ma Hin Tak. Since then altogether forty attacks have been launched against his army and all have failed to produce any concrete results to justify the subsequent losses brought about on both sides by these ventures.

Instead of attacking us, you should engage in teaching our people to substitute crops, build roads for them and buy their agricultural products. How can you expect the Shan people to stop opium without offering them assistance and restoration of their rights in return ?

The road to Shan Independence is through the opium issue because in the strategic calculations of the superpowers our Shan State is only a small country which is better ignored, except for its opium production. So we muust strive to keep it under control at all time. with the Idependence of the Shan State, the country which will be benefit the most will be Thailand. There was one Thai official who, while visiting me, spoke ill of the Laotions and the Vietnamese. I said: ”It’s not their fault. It’s the Amricans and Russians and yours. Your fault lies in depending too much on the Americans. If you have courage enough to stand on your own feet and take the lead, we can also become a power to be considered with in the world”, the Opium King stressed. (He welcomes the Ammerican who interview him in the jungle base of Ho Mong near the Thai border).

“Turbulence in the shan state”

Enunciated on differrent occasions
Revolotion
WHY?
This land has been given to us our forfathers since time immemorial.
Our country is full of natural wealth. We are just like beggars who sleep on beds made of gold and live in huts built of gems. It is because we don’t enjoy self- government.
The Americans used to live in a lesser developed condition than us. Yet they have ma naged to become a superpower today. Why? Because they have their own government.
If you have your own country but not your own government, nothing you own is secure. the money you earn is for others to take and squander; the rice you grow is to feed them; the home you build is for them to burn down; your sons are to be press- ganged as their cannon fodder and porters; and your daughters are to be raped and sold as prostitutes.
The selfish Burmese have, through their mismanagement, made ussuffer for decades. We cannot continue to humor their whims any longer. How can we believe they love us when they are only trying to make us more and more ignorant and poor? Ignorance and poverty only makes us admire other people. This in turn encourages us to pattern ourselves after them, thereby we ourselves become “other people”. That is the aim of the Burmese. That’s why I say take back our own land.
The Shan people have been too good for their own good. We have been so yielding to other people’s encroachment that we now have scarcely enough room to stand, not to mention sit and sleep.
Tell me one country that became independent without having to bear hardships, without having to struggle and fight. If the struggle of the shan people, to Whom this country legitimately belongs, is unfair, so was the American Revolution.

WHY- INDEPENDENCE?
We take up arms because of our people. And what do our people say? Everyone of them, from their children upwards, has been saying that they want back the country which was given to them by their forefathers. We are merely their servants, and servants can act only according to the wish of their masters.

WHY- FEW FIGHTS WITH THE BURMESE?
Why aren’t the Americans fighting with the Russians then? To fight a superior enemy islike preparing a new field to cultivate. First you have to clear the weeds and bushes that get in your way. Only then will you be able to cut down the big tree.
If you are weak, nobody will listen to you even though you beg them to with your hands clasped in front of you as a sign of homage. On the other hand, if you are strong, people will readily listen to you even though you are sitting on their heads. We may then even recover our motherland without having to fight at all.

OUR ENEMIES
Black Burmese - meaning successive Burmese goverments
Red Burmese- meaning the Communist Party of Burma
White Chinese- meaning the Kuomintang remnants
If you are unable to recognize your enemy, then you will probably become his guide when he comes to plunder and lay waste to your villages and towns.
The CPB is led by the Burmese. It works for the good of the Burmese. It’s finished without Chinese help. The KMT are Chinese. They work for their own good. They are finished once our Thai cousins stop backing them.
The Rangoon regime is also Burmese. Its primary mission is also the good of the Burmese. They’re done for once we are united.As for us, we are Shans. We are in our own land and we are working for the good of our own people. We can never perish even though no outsiders lend us a helping hand.

OUR FATE
The fate of the Shan people is not in other people’ hands. It’s in our very own.
Reliance on others can never carry you tar. Only reliance on one self can see one through.
There are people who are trying to persuade us to go and enter a crying contest in front of the West. It will be a mistake topay much attention to them.
Without the Burmese, we live.
Without us, the Burmese don’t.
Englihten yourself with this reality, and we can win the war just by keeping the Burmese out in the cold.
Mantioned above is part of the Warlord’s concept during his political activity in the battle field.
The bitter experince that he had witnessed under foreign occupation, first by the Jananese,and later by the KMT and the Burmese were enough for him [The knowledge of The Burmese betrayal of their promise to respect the right of the Shan State
to manage her own destiny] .He was to fight both the Burmese Communist Party[BCP] and White Chinese Army widely
controlling the opium trade in the Golden Triangle simultaneously as to be regarded as the most dangerous .
His strong Armed Force won the days-long battle and was able to control the vast area southern border with Thailand and eastern border with Lao since 1967. The KMT ’s 3rd.Commander Gen.Li Wen and the 5th.Commander G.Duan Shi Wen
fled into Thai soil as refugee status.

In the Golden Triagle of Southeast Asia a warlord named Khun Sa has turned an independence movement into the world’s biggest heroin business between 1967-1995.

In early January 1996, Khun Sa and his army MTA (Shan Mong Tai Army) surrendered to the Burmese Ruler.

However, large numbers of ex-MTA troops refused to surrender, and instead began moving north from the former MTA areas along the Thai-Burma border to join the other Shan resistance groups, the Shan State Army and the Shan State National Army, who had ceasefire agreements with the SLORC. These ex-MTA soldiers regrouped themeselves into a new army under the leadership of Col. Yord Serk.

The ex-MTA Later largely involved Opium and white pure Heroin production for the survival.

Moreover, Haw Chinese commanders of the MTA Opium-convoy, who left behind Khun Sa, are also indulgently continuing the heroin trade with their regular clients in the west.

Hill Tribes: Nomadic tribes such as the Lahu, Akha and Lisu live in the mountains of Yunnan, Laos and northern Shan State. They practice shifting cultivation and grow opium. In the Shan State, they also practice traditional religions and are poor even by Burmese standards; hill tribes are dependent on opium as their primary source of cash. More than 600 tonns of opium was produced in the state yearly. Hill tribes in the north of Shan state have been adversely affected by the aerial spraying of 2,4-D herbicide over their land by the Burmese government. Provided by the US for opium eradication, 2,4-D may produce such long-term effects as cancer and birth defects. In the Shan state, the spraying of 2,4-D is said to have ruined non-narcotic crops and caused medical problems in animals and humans. Fear of the spraying is said to be causing migration of the hill tribes, and the ruined crops are causing economic hardship and further political destabilization in the vast area through the north of the Shan state. Hill tribes may be seeking the protection of the armed insurgent groups.

Regrettably, the Thai Government has no policy of accepting refugees from the Shan State.

Whereas refugees from Karen, Karenni, Mon States have been granted temporary asylum in Thailand and the right to receive “Humanitarian Assistance from International Aid Organizations” Shan refugees fleeing to Thailand have been repeatedly push back across the border by Thai authorities.

The result of the Thai policy has meant that until the present, any fleeing to Thai soil have been forced to try survive as illegal migrants. The risk and difficulties this involves have compounded their suffering.

Up until now, there has been no official Thai acknowledgement of huge influx of Shan refugees.

High numbers of Shan crossing the border to find job while a huge demand for migrant laborers in the Thai construction industry . Construction in Thailand is booming and contractors prefer to hire migrant laborers as the coast is much cheaper.

It can be estimated that a minimum of 2,000 Shans cross over during a month. A large scale arrests of refugees that occurred daily in border. It is likely that Thai authorities are not aware of the exodus caused by the forced relocation. It can only be assumed that as long as the official Thai policy is to deny asylum for Shan refugees.

It is expedient to deny that the problem exists.