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Ruby Land in Mong Su Township, the City of Smuggler in Central Shan State
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.
Who will be Khun Sa’s successor to carry on drug business in the future!
Fa Lung alias Chang Shi Shwen and Khun Seng alias Ronal, closests aides of Khun Sa, are important persons in any case.
They have respectfully been working for the aim of the boss.
Fa Lung used to be the military advisor to Burmese Army commander in chief.
Both have to be successors to carry on the party’s business with massive financial ties to Singapore as Khun Sa had been Burma’s top investor.
Singapore is more than willing to share the drug lords.
Burmese and Singapore level work committee was formed in 1993 to increase mutual interests.
Gen. Khin Nyunt headed the Burmese committee.
Singapore’s investment in Burma is opening door for the drug dealers and giving them access to banks and financial system.
Attentions around the world currently focuse on Burma’s situation after being dead of warlord.
Khun Sa and Lo Sing Han were the key performers in the Burmese economy.
Both had been successful business men in Burma.
The Wa force not long after the MTA surrendered had moved to Mong Mai base to control boder area independenly.
Two rich Chineses, Lao Dai and Charle ,involed heroin trade and longtime Khun Sa’s trusted assistants were captured by US DEA in Mae Sai.
The two men left behind and continued to stay in Ta Ki Lek city had been taken to America.
This news bade Khun SA unhappy.
