| |
| | disinformation | drug war: burma: 8/8/88 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Complicating the situation further were the 12,000 CIA-financed Kuomintang troops in the Shan states, the eastern mountains bordering Thailand and China. |
 | | Ne Win, in control of the Burma Army in the early sixties, brought many of the Shan state opium armies under his umbrella by legalizing the opium trade for those who would fight under his KKY (Ka Kwe Ye), local self defense, banner. |
 | | Thus heroin for export became the official mainstay of the Burma Army's war against the Karens, the Shans, the Kachins, the Wa, the Lahu, the Communists, the KMT and the other territorially or politically-based rebels. |
| www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id871/pg1 (1127 words) |
|