Gandar Mount P.S.O

The Burmese Junta has been always declaring and revealing about the seizure of heroin, opium and methamphetamines and the traffickers, who are mostly retailers, in Burmese news papers and on TV.

The Military Junta’s anti-drugs operations is only focusing on the minor traffickers, some of whom dealing with low grade and small quantity and while others involved high-grade heroin as individual business and not the Drug Syndicate.

But the authorities have never seized huge amount and high-quality of heroins and opiums belonged to the Drug lords Lo Shin Han, Khun Sa’s group, Wai Xu Gang, Lao Kai group, Li Min Shin’S group, U Ai Tun and the Wa Army force.

These groups have been paying tax a lot to Junta government as well as apparently providing much money to high ranking officials included the Army Generals of Divisional commanders in the Shan State for personal use.

This is Drug policy of the longevity of Burmese Ruler.

For instance, according to the Burmese news paper published in “New Light of Myanmar”, the military authorities captured 308 people, 250 men and 58 women in 207 drug related cases.

Police Custom officials and the military seized 7.6 kg of heroin, 71.18 kg of opium, 0.7 kg of opium oil, 4.6 kg of low-grade opium and more than 220,000 stimulate tablets during in November alone as part of their crackdown on the narcotics trade.

Although crop substitution programmes for poor farmers would never be successful the regime has no expectancy to do it more.

Especially, Junta has claimed, the US DEA and UN office on drugs are interfering its internal affair.

Human rights abused in the country is on going as the political activists are imprisoned for their movement of the democracy some them sentenced to 20 years or 30 years etc.

All the politicians are blamed to have undermined the country’s security and its human rights record has become under scrutiny by the international community after the Junta cracked down on the street protests led by the country’s Buddhist monks.

Burma’s human rights record has gone from bad to worse including the conditions endured by Political prisoners.

Hundreds of political prisoner were removed from the original notorious Insein Jail and Mandalay jail and then separately transferred them to another jails in the provinces throughout the country such as the provinces of Ka Chin state, Shan state, Chin state, Arikan state, Mon state, Karen state and Karen Ni state etc. in order to severely sever contacts between the parents or relatives and prisoners.

The UN Officials are not be able to meet the political prisoners.

The Junta does not want to meet any UN Official and Red Cross.

Do not think that the Military regime seems keen to appear to be making some concessions to the human rights envoy.

Since the Red Cross stopped their prison visit because of government interference, conditions have deteriorated.

No proper medical care ,less food rations and no one to courier letters between them and their families.

This was part of the package provided by representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross on their regular visit to the prisoners.

There are still more than 2,000 political prisoners languishing in the prisons.

The international community has been telling the Junta for more than 20 years to release political prisoners and stop human rights abused but without any appreciable success.

In earlier August, the latest visitor Tomos Ojea Quintana, the UN’s new human rights rapporteur for Burma, feels certain that the regime is ready to cooperate with him after five days-visiting to Rangoon where he met some political prisoners in Insein jail.

On his inaugural trip to Burma, political prisoners were his top priority.

But he failed to meet any real high-ranking officials of the government or military.

He also did not try to see Aung San Su Kyi, on the grounds this was an sensitive issue best avoided
on his first visit to Burma.

Mr Quintana plans to return to Burma in February 2009, to help prepare for his submission to UN Human rights Council next March.

He also thinks the Burmese regime is keen to be seen cooperating with the UN.

It may be unlikely to be successful and popular in the future and his next visit will mixture of good and bad experiences.

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A: Khun Sa was the first man to have been capable to produce the pure white heroin in Asia, the brand name of the product, Double Lions straddling on globe, printed in red colour on plastic-bag which is for a kilogramm. The best quality brand as he kept superb Chemists from Taiwan and Hong Kong. They were highly offered by Khun Sa when the SUA force built its Strongholds in Ma Hin Dek where Khun SA’s Army had recruited young soldiers as well as momentous military equipments.

Q: Did Wa and Gogang groups produce the pure heroin? and did their drug business involve in the Drug trafficking of Khun Sa?

A: The 2 groups currently (in 1980) could not be able to produce good quality of the Heroin. The only 2 things Goang Gang could do were Opium-trade and tonns of collective raw opium in their Go Gang State alone. The Wa group was also did the same but depended Way Xu Gong. Pink colour of Mitzu, No. 3 stage not yet No.4 heroin, was refined by the Go Gang and swiftly sent to Hong Kong to further refine the 3 into 4. Because it could not keep last-long. They were not involved the politics but were named as regional Defence Force by the Burmese Ruler.

Q: Did you know about the work of US. DEA and UN Drug Eradication Program in Burma?
A: We had never had any information of these Agencies. Because they were inactive. The film-makers said, “our ducumentary would be presented to our Australian Authorities to consider prevention of Drugs-flow into the country. Australian people who carried drugs into Penang and Singapore were given Capital Punishment. We had also known that Australia was being one of transitpoints between Vietnam and New York street.”

The Major replied that we knew one of Khun Sa trusted men called him as Ko Nyo who had been staying in Sydney.

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.