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Muslim separatists in Kashmir
Muslim separatist leaders launched protests in June saying that the Indian Government’s plan was aimed at changing the demography of the Muslim-majority region.
More than two months of angry protests have left at least 42 people dead in Indian-administered Kashmir, most of them killed when soldiers opened fire on Muslim protesters.
The Government has tried to crush the ongoing freedom struggle by harassing Kashmiris and using brutal force on them.
The strike was called by Jammu Kashmir Coordination Committee, whose members include Muslim separatist leaders and representatives of businesses, lawyers and government staff.
Key leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Omer Farooq and Mohammed Yasin Malik were kept under house arrest and released on September 1 2008, after a week long of detention.
The unrest was triggered by a government move to hand over land to a Hindu shrine.
Dangerous Drug Gang of Chinese Triads
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.
Does the opuim king, half Shan-half Chinese, real love the Shans and his state?
When made a question to various nations inclued Indian, Chinese, Burmese, Shan and other ethnics living across the State as does Khun Sa love the Shans and his native Shan State following to his over stated about the revolution in the past? The answer is no! similar heart to heart criticism outbursted after the death of King lord.
He died on 28 Oct. 2007, long time suuffering from blood pressure and diabetic deceased.
During his over 2 decades of living in Rangoon, he had been failing to develop the remote areas of the poor families who need to have hospitals, schools, trasportation routes and other facilities for better living.
Thousands of Shan are confronting with economic-hardship and poverty, besides they are harassed by the Burmeses soldiers almost through out the state.
(The picture shown, FaLung’s last respect to Khun Sa)
The poor families should be given foods and the starved children must be saved.
He had done nothing for the Shans although having millions of US dollar in his hand.
He is trying to do mega projects for his associates only.
He had sold Shans down the river and forgotten his State.
The world remembers that what he used to say during his heyday in the jungle, that is “We take up arms because of our paople. And what do our people say? Every of them has been saying that they want back the country which was given to them by their forefather. The selfish Burmese have made us suffered for decades.Ignorance and poverty only makes us admire other people. I don’ t grow poppies and I don’t deal in drugs. I’m working for the freedom of my country.”
