Palaung State Liberation Front. Ta'ang National Liberation Army. Tai (People) Shan (People) Kokang (People) Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (Shan State Army East) Allied with UWSA. Source: Yang Mao-liang. Drug Trafficking. Yang Mao-xian, Yang Mao-Liang's younger brother. Heroin.
Wa. Wa National Organization. United Wa State Army. Narcotics traficking. Opiates/Heroin. Burmese Daze. The decline of opium production in the Golden Triangle masks serious flaws in the effectiveness of drug eradication efforts in the region OPIUM cultivation in Burma, Laos and Thailand has decreased over the last ten years.
The region where these three countries meet—known as the Golden Triangle—once produced most of the world’s opium. But that position has been taken over by Afghanistan, which has seen a massive increase in poppy cultivation and is today responsible for more than 90 percent of global opium production. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Golden Triangle region produced some 1,300 metric tons (tonnes), or one-third of the world’s opium in 1998; by 2007, it produced 460 tonnes, or around 5 percent. UN drug-control officials have hailed the decline as a great success. There is, however, little reason for such a sanguine view.
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China Provides Fighter Copters to Burma Armed Group: Report. China has provided missile-equipped helicopters to Burma’s largest armed ethnic rebel group, a report said this week, in a move that one Burmese military analyst said could hurt bilateral ties.
Monday’s report by U.K. -based intelligence monitor Jane’s Information Group said China had delivered several Mil Mi-17 ‘Hip’ helicopters to the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in late February and early March, citing sources from the Burmese government and the military wing of an ethnic rebel group. The UWSA, which numbers some 30,000 full-and part-time fighters and controls towns along the Chinese and Thai borders in northeastern Burma’s Shan state, is in a fragile cease-fire with the Burmese military. The helicopters, armed with TY-90 air-to-air missiles, were sent to the UWSA-administered area by way of Laos, instead of coming directly from China, the report said. 'Could damage relations' China emerging as main source of arms to N-E rebels: Janes Review. China has replaced Cambodia and Thailand as the main supplier of weapons to insurgent groups in India's Northeast and Myanmar, the Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR) has said.
In an analysis of the Asian weapons black market, the defence think-tank says that the United Wa State Army (UWSA) rebel group in Myanmar acts as the "middleman" between Chinese arms manufacturers and insurgent groups in the Northeast, with most weapons routed through China's Yunnan province. Pointing out that the arms market in India is extremely lucrative, JIR says that a Chinese automatic rifle that is available for $500 in eastern Myanmar can command a price of $2,500 by the time it reaches the Northeast.
Referring to an arms seizure by Myanmar authorities in 2001 that first brought out the trend, JIR says that "a consignment of several hundred Chinese assault rifles" were recovered while being transported to the Indian border at Tamu and were meant for "Manipuri UNLF and possibly other factions". ... contd. Shan State Army. Shan State Army South. Shan State Congress formed. Wednesday, 24 December 2008 17:04 Hkun Hsoito, SHAN, Ta Ai Nyunt, Hkun Thurein, Kya Bo Long, Lahu villager and Shan villager The committee, its members to be named later, would be headed by the following groups: Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) 1 member PaO National Liberation Organization(PNLO) 1 member Restoration Council of Shan State (SSA’s political arm) 3 members Tai Coordination Committee(TCC) 1 member Wa National Organization(WNO) 1 member “We should work together on common issues,” said Yawdserk in his invitation, “and work separately on different ones.
We should also meet at least once a year to discuss issues affecting us.” General Yawd Serk. 256-interview-lieutenant-general-yawd-serk. Shan State Army North. Shan State.