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Opium wars have devastated the Shan State
It must be remembered that Shan are not the genesis of the heroin problem. It was the exploited cultivation and passed laws to protect distribution of opium that addicted East Asia. During the french Indochina era drugs continued to be used for political and commercial advantage by fereign interests. The America CIA Colonel Edward G. Lansdale reported in July 1953 to his superiors in Washington, D.C. that the Fresh military had bught up the entire ‘53 opium harvest on oders of the French commander –in — Cheif, General Raoul Salan. The opium was flown to Saigon for sale and export. Through the U.S. war in Vienam, heroin prodution was accelerated to help finance CIA mercenary expansion campaigns in Laos and Cambodia. It was further used to destroy the will of the American people at home and on the battle fields. Today the operation remains the same, only a few of the names have changed as people have died or been promoted. After the Communist takeover in 1975, the CIA stockpiled weapons in Thailand and the Philippies to continue operation in Southeast Asia. Heroin provides the means. Officials arrange the laundry of funds through international banks. Mafia contacts handle worldwide distributil.
The DEA believed that most of the heroin smuggled into US came in small quantities. Then they began to single seizures of up to 380 kilogram, and acknowledged that Southeast Asian heroin traffickers, dominated by ethnic Chinese, are smuggling increasingly large amounts by commercial ships, air freight and international mail.
The Chinese gangs known as “triads”. Since 1970, the traids served as the suppliers in the Mafia’ s heroin network. They, along with various ethnic Chinese smuggling group, move the bulk of the Golden Triangle heroin through Thailand, Lao, Shan land and mainland China to its ultimate destination; The United State Gen. Khun Sa is the triad’s best source.
