Gandar Mount P.S.O

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.

The people of the Shan State are its legal owners. Representing them, I have ceaselessly offered to cooporate with you but you have repeatedly shut your eyes ears to my offer. The real calprits, e.g. the KMT remnants, are well protected by you. You don’t have the guts to offend the Goverments of independent countries that grow and deal in drugs. But your courage is truly outstanding when it comes to us people who have lost our humanrights. On the one hand, you have hired the force to attack us forty times during which lives and property were lost but that meant nothing to you. One noteworthy fact which came out of these numerous assaults was no drugs had ever been seized. On the other hand, you have hired Burmese to continue their occupation campaigns against the Shan people. You also gave them dangerous herbicides to spray on our people. You, your self are the one who’s affraid of the end of opium. You, yourself, are the one who has betrayed your own nation. You, yourself, are the one who has made your people suffer for so long. People got fed up with the CIA’ smeddling after the Vietnam War and it had to be taken to the back row to replace it, the DEA was created Like its predecessor, the CIA wherever the DEA goes, American politics follows. It grabs Bangok ’s hair with one hand and Rangoon’ s with the other,and meddles in their internal affairs. In the end, it’s the DEA itself that has been responsible for the Asian drugs in America.

You have to revise your drug policy. If you don’t, more popies will be grown, more addict to it will arrive on the scene. By and by you will find difficulty in your country. In Asia itself, there will be more turmoil and instability. Stop telling that our fate rests with you. That kind of arrogance brought you defeat and shame in Vietnam. Stop behaving as if you are the only one that matters in this world. It is because of you that the freedom of the Shan people has been delayed - so has the freedom of the world from Shan State opium.