Gandar Mount P.S.O

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

Khun Sa continued order his gun men to kill his rival, the quality leaders of the SSA Nationalists, 2 years after the killing of Col. Sam Mong and his comrades.

Col. Pan Aung, Sao Boon Dai, President of the Political wing in the party, and Sao Seng Han, Foreign Affairs, were consecutively killed by closerange gun-shot in downtown Chiang Mai.

Soe Zung and Sao Boon Dai, both had frequently denounced Khun Sa’s policy as it was similar to the policy of former Cambodian Leader Bhon Pot.

Similar death occurred in Mae Hong Son when Major Sam Lek and Major Sam Car, SSA section commanders ,were shot near their homes in Kar Harn village outskirts Mae Hong Son.

The last one to be killed was Col.Sai Lek who accepted Khun Sa’s invitation that to work for the combined forces under leaders of KhunSa and Moe Haing, whose Mong Tai Army (MTA) established on 3 March 1985.

After Moe Haing died in 1991, Sai Lek with his men moved to Mong Mai headquarter and stayed there for months- long only, he suffered serious illness for a week under intensive care by a Shan Medical Dr., who is the regular Doctor (forgot his name) at Ho Mong Headquarters.

He had been responsible for the killing of Col.Sai Lek as he was seen to have injected medicine into Sai Lek’s blood-stream.

Sai Lek died at 5 am ,according to his personal guadrs and his friends sitting around him.

VDO camera had recorded the incidence of Sai Lek’s situation, being under ill treatment of the Doctor, until his death.

It was beyond doubt that Khun Sa oredred the killing.

It could not believe that such a man with tough body ,aged a bout 45,was easily died by minor illness.

He, half India-half Shan, as battalion commander had been known as one of the most active in military operrations and wanted by the Government.

His armed struggle in the jungle as long as about 25 year and with much experience of a series of fightings against the Burmese army had always rejected cease-fire talks with the Burmese.

But when the SSA was undermined and in the situation of political turning point, Col. Sai Lek Coincidenly accepted Khun Sa’s offer which he never thought that would be dangerous to his life.

It was also miscount of the victim.

Another top leader wanted by the Burmese and remained to be slain was Sao Wai, the son of first President of Burma Sao Shwe Theik, moved to Canada with his family from Chieng Mai.

He had been also invited by Khun Sa twice to head politics in the party.

He quited the politics since Col. Sam Mong disappeared and living in Chieng Mai long time as ordinary people before leaving for Canada for good.

Between 1978-1996 (in the period of 17 years)

The Shan soldiers, in a dilema, had to make a decisive answer for their future after being no return of their leaders.

Synchronously, some returned to the strongholds in the northern Shan State while others joined the SURA (Shan United Revolution Army) headed by Moe Haing.

The news of brutal assasination of the three behaved by Fa Lung and Khun Sa had to be concealed as could as poosible to save their dignity.

The murder of the three might not satisfy the Burmese Military Ruler so that Khun Sa must carry on the killing.

The top leaders and high-ranking officers active in the SSA’s political wing and military-operation commanders were to be slain.

To carry out this assignment, Khun Sa needed more time to have a good chance for his gunmen who stand up to the enemy and are involed with gun-running as well.

Khun Sa had many chances to fatally shoot the SSA member one by one after the SSA was seperated into four groups.

(1) Group led by Col.Soe Tent made cease-fire with the Government, (2) Group headed by Col.Sam Mai joined Moe Haing’s SURA force, (3) Group of High-Ranking politicians included Sao Boon Dai, Sao Wai, Khun Jar Nu, Sao Seng Han and Soe Zung, all were not only highly educated from Rangoon University but also well talking in English, retired and stayed in Chiang Mai and, (4) Group being the armed soldiers under command of Col.Sai Lek continued armed struggle around Namp Kham and Mu Se aeras closed China border.

Another one, also important in the Shan Revolution Council and Commander in chief, was Sao Soe Leant, graduated in Political Science, with his wife and 5 children surrendered to the Government because of disappointed with disunity in the party as well as its influence had been diminished.

As the members in the Shan group were separated and staying in different places.

Therefore they were the target of shooting and coincidently the victims were negligent in assasination disposed by Khun Sa.

The consecutive assasination carried on in Chieng Mai as Shan leaders were shot down in different ocasions one by one.

The dead were Soe Zung, Sao Seng Han and Sao Boon Dai.

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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.