Gandar Mount P.S.O

In the early 1800s the British East India Company’s imports of Chinese tea, rare silk and Eastern spices were of far greater value than England’s coarse exports to China.

To balance this trade deficit and open up more ports to British merchants, England smuggled Turkish
and Indian opium into China, ignoring a Chinese ban on the drug.

As tea imports into England rose, so did opium imports into China.

Eventually the Americans involved in this lucrative trade,and in the 1950s the lead of one of the largest smuggling companies was Franklin D.Roosevelt’s grandfather Warren Delano II.

Near the end of the 19th century ethnic Chinese Triads,which started in the 17th century as an underground network of patriotic citizens who opposed the conquering Manchus from Mongolia, derived their name from a Chinese concept that identifies the the three sides of an equilateral triangle with man, heaven and earth.

Their members were involved in various failed revolutions over the centuries,and most triads slowly evolved into convenient vehicles for thinly veiled thuggery.

The Triads attracted adventurers who found the upward path blocked in normal society.

By the 20th century their main resources and activity were the heroin trade, extortion, gambling and prostitution.

Members held meetings, not to resolve political problems but to assign assassination jobs to Red Poles, as their hit men were called.

From the very beginning China’s most powerful triad members, the Chiu Chao, helped facilitate the opium trade.

The Chiu Chao were a seagoing people from southern China who migrated to many Southeast Asian countries.

In time, the Chiu Chao dominated smuggling and opium traffic along the China coast.

When Westerners imagined wicked Chinese pirates smuggling gold bars, drugs and frightened maidens,and lurking in the dark recesses of the Spice Islands, they were picturing the Chiu Chao Kingpins heading major banks in the region control the international narcotics trade from the Golden
Triangle of Indochina through Bangkok.

Khun Sa’s Army eventully managed to build strong bases along the Thai border, from the Mae Hong Son district to Golden Triangle via Mai Sai district of Chieng Rai, after the KMT was expelled.

The 10,000 of MTA with well military equipment however protect the vast areas surrounding the south and east of the Shan State.

In addition the main KMT’s role is guarding the popyfields while ruthlessly welding a union among the array of Shan Nationalist factions.

Khun Sa’s financial and business-like officers laundering profits through Thai banks and legitimate business.

During era of MTA, the Thais have put abounty on his head.

But Moe Haing is being under pressure of Khun Sa although roles in political wing.

He is not only involved in the military activity but also no connection with his subordinates in frontlines who have been forced to attack the Wa troops and other nationalist groups including Go Gang, Pa long, Shan and Lahu.

Hundreds of More Haing’s soldiers are dead in battle fields during about 9 years of joined armies.

It has been to be doubted that the dead soldiers are secretly shot by theChinese army commanders in battle fields.

Moe Haing has not been reported about the dead soldiers.

He may know later after months-long as he based in Mai Soong headquarters near Chieng Dao border, his original based-camp, while Khun Sa is basing in Ho Mong headquarters oppposite Mae Hong Son border.

Moe Haing meets Khun Sa when the meeting is held in Ho Mong base.

As the expenditure of worldwide drug supression funds grows so does the production and distribution of opium products. Billions of dollars have been spent to stop drugs,yet trafficking from the Golden Triangle has steadily escalated. The raw opium annually produced about 1,000 tons in Wa State and Gogang state while about 500 tons are sporadically produced throughout the State. But in good season, the figure increased to 2,000 tons in the three States. “Existing drug suppression programs aren’t working. How do you think such enormous shipments can be exported from this
underdeveloped region without the badges, credentials, clearances and involvement of corrupt authorities? It can’t and is isn’t!. Tax payer dollars only increase the incentive of those involved in drug suppression to increase the flow of nacotics” said the Warlord. ”There is a positive solution. By uprooting all opium plants there can be no processing of heroin.The problems associated with addiction would go away,disarming those who wouldl legalize drugs.Within five to seven years, opium from the Golden Triangle can be extinct ! We have the capability and desire. We will do the work, but we need help.”

The Mong Tai Army is an exceptionally disciplined,equipped,and spirited self defense force that secures our borders from all invaders.The solidarity of our free people insures our continued security. We control our region ande the drugs that pass through it. We can stop the trafficking and eliminate all future growing. To do it only requires reasonable assistance and cooperation in replacing our economic dependency on poppies.