It is small city on the hill-top in east Mong Su township but a lot of various nationals and tribes are living and striving to get money not only in a short time but also making a massive profit, by hardiness, although it is hazardous to them.

To the mountain city, where the natural ruby stones are dug and sold them as being good business, the merchants or visitors must depend on 4 wheel truck driving about 2 hours along mountainous route from botom of the mountain.

The ruby stones each weight from 2 to 20 carats could be found after diging out for 7 meters or more deeper and about 4 square-meters wide.

Many hard-laborers who risk to do across the country settle down here and try their luck.

The capitalists inclding Chineses, Indians, Burmese, Shans, Wa Army and Thais are waiting to buy alot of ruby stones.

The quality of the ruby is similar to ruby from Pai Lin of Cambodia.

The best ruby in the world is in Moe Goke mine in Burma and it is strictly controlled by the Burmese Junta.

The Junta allows only the Opium King Pins such as Lo Shin Han, Khun Sa and Way Zu Gong who pay revenue to run gem mines.

The alleged Mong Su city has since 1990 been popular with it’s beautiful red-ruby as the ruby-stones were firstly found by the Palawng tribe, who regularly living around the mountain area, during in rainy season.

But later after 1999 the situation in the city had apparently changed into turbulence because of inflowing original Chinese from mother land as in one hand, increasing drugs and weapons trafficking business in the area is on the other hand.

Merchants and capitalists are using the currency of US Dollar, Chinese Yuan and Thai baht only.

No electricity in the mountain-city but some,who are able to bring in a small petrol-engine for electricity from China, have own private electricity.

About 20,000 residents in the city strive to be rich only and also not to live in poverty while the country is being poverty-stricken situation.

Among the smugglers,hundreds of Thai involved in the arms, drugs and gems trafficking are also found in the City.

Thai traffickers, speak Shan and English for business talks (as Thais and Laos can talk to each other by using own language), run between the mountain city and Mae Sai border where their bosses or regular customers or investors are on alert in Takilek because of having better security than in Mae Sai.

For an example, short guns Pistols and Revolvers are being popular in the Ruby-land every body who have a lot of money ordered the guns from the Thai smugglers to use it for self- protection or resold them to others.

The Thai traffickers venture to do both illegal methamphetamine and guns business while they have friendships with the Red Wa Army and Shan Army forces, which had agreed cease-fire with the Burmese Government since 1998, being active around the mountain.

About 4,000 of Shans and Wa soldiers from the both armed groups are depending on these illegal business for their survival as long as they are alloted to base here by their high ranking leaders from Headquarters.

Only the majors and captains from each group command their soldiers and control their high income.

About 1,000 Burmese soldiers whose commanders must be friends with the cease-fire groups depend on the tax-payment from the Wa and Shan as well as from the wealthy Chinese-groups who run gambling dens business and brewery.

Two drug courier are able to carry 10,000 drug-pill, driving motorcycle from the mountain to the Thai border by gungle route.

The drug courier however have to hire the Shan motorcyclist who is familiar with the jungle route to avoid the Burmese security gates setting up for checking passengers who travel by cars and trucks loading with goods.

One amphetamine pill produced and sold by Wa army cost only 30 baht when sold it in border it would cost 100 baht.,the border price. A new revolver cost 40,000
baht and a new pistol coast 50,000 baht.

Both must be USA and Italy made as they preferred to use it than China made.

The used shot guns in good condition are also bought but cheap.

New or used short guns are collected in Mae Sai.

An army officer used to say that ” it is likely stupid if we considered to destroy the opium growth in our country”.

In the long-run, the natural growth of teak-woods in the Shan State are almost to be gone as tons of teak log have been illegally transporting to China and Thailand.But the opium trees, which have to be cultivated but it can be grown in a short time and has easy way to make money, will never be gone.

There are many armed groups including Rebel, Defense force, militancy are being independently involved with drug trafficking without harassment of the military Government.

The Burmese army from battalion commanders to Brigadier Generals regularly based across the Shan State are being the share-holders in the drug-running business due to mutual interests made between the out-law groups and the military authorities.

The most strategic area to be prevented is in the Thailand-Shan State boders.

Thousands of the Burmese soldiers are on alert and deploying along the route closed to border apparently from Nong Uk of Chiang Dao to Mong Go opposite Mae Sai.

Mong Go is situated in north of Takilek city and on the Mae Kong river bank and opposite Laos.

It is very freedom to export the drug from the Mong Go to the Laos soil which is linking to Vietnam border.

Non stop production of methamphetamine is managed by the notorious Way brothers, Way Xao Kang, Way Xao Yin and Way Xao Lin who had been massive lost property and money during
Thaksin Gonernment’s drug eradication.

Thaksin, as he vows to root up the drug traffickers during his administration, set a special team of Anti Money Laundry which had successfully seized many plots of land, weapons, gold ornaments, concealed money, cars, millions of baht in the saving banks and luxuriou houses in Chieng Mai, Chieng Rai and Bangkok belonged to the Haw Chinese men an women.

Some are captured but others have been escaped.

All of them are relatives to Way brothers and long time living in Thailand.

Basing from this country, they managed to transport their heroin to their drug-syndicate in abroad.Among the seizure, jade and gems trading Co., grand and luxurious, located at World Trade center in Bangkok has been also seized by the Thai authority.

The trading Co. is, following the secret information,business-like designed for meeting and talking business.

Therefore the Way Brothers are trying to regain their lost of billion of baht by the drug-trafficking again.

Story on the Shan State be cotinued by PSO

United Arab Emirates (UAE) severed links with the Taliban regime in 2001 over its refusal to comply with international pressure to hand over bin Laden.The British embassy said more than 100,000 British nationals are resident in the UAE, the largest Western community in the country.

It’s impoverished neighbor Yemen has witnessed several attacks claimed by al-Qaeda, and in Qatar, one Briton was killed and 12 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a there near a British school in Doha in March 2005.

The booming oil-rich Gulf state and regional economic and tourst hub that is home to several million foreigners.

The UAE is a conservative Muslim nation but has become a major regional tourist hub, attracting millions each year.

Dubai City is known for its liberal lifestyle.

While other Gulf countries have witnesses bloody attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda network of Saudi-born terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, the UAE has not been targeted.

There is a high threat from terrorism.Britain has warned of a high risk of a terror attack which could be indiscriminate and could happen at anytime.

Muslim separatist leaders launched protests in June saying that the Indian Government’s plan was aimed at changing the demography of the Muslim-majority region.

More than two months of angry protests have left at least 42 people dead in Indian-administered Kashmir, most of them killed when soldiers opened fire on Muslim protesters.

The Government has tried to crush the ongoing freedom struggle by harassing Kashmiris and using brutal force on them.

The strike was called by Jammu Kashmir Coordination Committee, whose members include Muslim separatist leaders and representatives of businesses, lawyers and government staff.

Key leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Omer Farooq and Mohammed Yasin Malik were kept under house arrest and released on September 1 2008, after a week long of detention.

The unrest was triggered by a government move to hand over land to a Hindu shrine.

“It’s almost impossible to make a peace deal under this presidency” said rebel chief Mr. Mohagher Iqbal.

The Philippines Government had refused to sign an accord granting Muslims more autonomy in the south.

The refusal made it virtually impossible for Islamic insurgents to forge a peace deal with President Gloria Arroyo.

The Government rejected to sign the accord after three rebel-commanders led a deadly rampage against Cristian communities, prompting a military offensive would continue.

The accord seeks to expand an existing Muslim autonomous region by adding more than 700 villages, subject to the approval of residents in a plebiscite.

But Christian politicians in areas that would be affected challenged the deal in the Supreme Court, triggering the August 18 attacks on mostly Christian towns in Mindanao in which dozens of civilians were shot and hacked to death.

Government force launched assaults targeting the three rebel commanders and the men who conducted the raids.

The rebel attacks and subsequently military assaults killed civilians.

The violence in the three southernmost provinces has caused widespread destruction to lives and property, displacement of civilians.

Many children are innocent victims of the social unrest.

If their parents are killed, they lose their main sources of financial and emotional support.

Songkla based Mental Health center estimates 6,000 children and teenagers, 2,561 of them orphans have been affected in the 4 provinces since the unrest flared up in January 2004.

More than 1,000 women have lost husbands,fathers, or brothers in the insurgent
attack.

A new generation of a young Muslim insurgents in the deep south Narathiwat, YaLa and Pattani carrying out future attacks.

In thre past, schools and Government offices had been burnt down.

School teachers, village Head-men and civilians were gunned down while 3 other were beheaded.

Soldiers and polices suffered heavy casualties when they were promptly ambushed by the terrorists on the way.

The Government authorities had ever confiscate 30 millions Baht belonged to the insurgent force in a village.

However, the Muslim terrorists about 150 from the 3 provinces who are suspected to have been involved in the rebellion were captured.

The attacks by the Muslim rebels in the strategic areas of the southernmost still going on until today.

Human rights activists are demanding the Thai Government impose measures to pressure the Burmese Junta to stop its violent crackdown on mass anti-Junta protesters and called on the Government to review two mega-investment projects in Burma.

Ms Ladawan, head of Campaign for Democracy in Burma, said if Thailand suspended the construction of a hydro power dam which is on the Salween river and in the area of active Karen Ni Revolution force and a gas purchase contract it would have a direct economic impact on the Burmese Junta.

The question is whether the “Thai Government has the moral courage to take action,” she said.

Meanwhile China called on sides in Burma to exercise restraint on incident and told the foreign media not to worsen the situation by exaggerating events.

The unfolding crackdown by Burma’s Government against the democracy demonstrators, many of them Buddhist monks, has put China in a difficult position.

The Communist Government has developed close diplomatic ties with Burmese Government is major trading partner and investor.

However before the Beijing Olympics game, China has been fending off criticism that it shelters unpopular abusive regimes around the world.

The U.S President George W.Bush had also, earlier in September, called for reform of the council, citing disappointment with its failure to scrutinies the world’s worst human rights violators.

Two men “suspected Muslim terrorist” rammed a dump truck into a group of jogging policemen and then and then tossed explosives into their barracks on August 2008, killing 16 officers and wounding others in China’s restive Central Asian border province.

The attack in Xiaoping province came just four days before the opening Beijing Olympics, an event that has put security forces nationwide on alert and that Muslim group has vowed to disrupt.

The local police called it a “suspected terrorist attack.”

The 2 attackers were captured, one was injured in the leg.

The attack was one of the deadliest and most brazen in recent years in Xiaoping province, where Muslims have waged a sporadically violent rebellion against Chinese rule.

related story on movement of Muslim terrorist in each country across the world will be continued

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.

Bush signs law to ban gems trade

WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush on 29 July 2008 renewed a ban on imports from military-ruled Burma and also signed a new law that aims to keep Burma’s Gems from entering US markets via third-party countries.

In parallel the US treasury slapped financial sanctions on 10 companies owned or controlled by the Burmese Government or Government officials, including companies involved in the gem trade.

“On the Burmese regime,our message is: the United States believes in democracy and freedom,” Mr. Bush said during a White House ceremony in which he signed the two laws.

The Burmese freedom and Democracy Act renews a sanctions regime imposed since 2003 over the suppression of opposition leader Aung Sun Sukyi’s democracy movement.

Mr Bush also signed a new sanctions regime aimed at stopping gems including jade and rubies from entering the United State via third nations such as Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

The so-called Tom Lantos Block Burmese jade Act will deprive its ruling junta of hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

The gems trade is one of the most lucrative sources of profit for the Junta, accused of blatant human rights abuses and stifling democratic opposition.

The bill also makes the generals and their families ineligible for visas to the United States and enhances existing financial sanctions against the regime.

It includes new reporting requirements that will provide greater transparency about the Junta in terms of financial holdings,information about countries that provide military aid to the regime,and background on Burma’s timber trade.

The US sanctions targeted two state-controlled conglomerates, the Union of Burma Economic Holdings Limited and the Burma Economic Corporation, which are both involved in the gem trade, banking and construction directly and through subsidiaries. AFP