Myanmar - Khun Sa

Khun Sa (a.k.a. the Prince of Death or Mr. K), wanted by the U.S. government for heroin trafficking, was the world's largest single supplier of heroin until he "surrendered" to SLORC in January 1996. The U.S. government credits Khun Sa with providing a full two-thirds of the world's heroin supply when he was in business. Rather than rotting and languishing in some Third World piss-stained jail cell, Mr. K, as he's referred to by his close associates, instead lives opulently with the generals in Yangon. He has a number of hotel interests and runs the capital's bus system. It's golf twice a week with the generals and a military escort when he leaves home. His choice of restaurants doesn't need to be marred by how busy they might be. Soldiers simply clear the place out. Mr. K and his ten aides-who followed him from his Ho Mong headquarters-can then dine in peace before taking Khun's four cars back to the compound for some afternoon pitch-and-putt in the back yard. Then, after a little nap, it's time to get that annoying diabetes checked out by his very own live-in Taiwanese doctor. Nonetheless, his best buddies say that Mr. K is both bored and stressed by Yangon and yearns for the mountains of Shan State and his former glory as a ruthless drug warlord. Not that he's left them entirely; his Khun Sa gang runs a network of methamphetamine factories where his poppies used to grow. Much of the dope ends up in Thai high schools and the glove boxes of long-distance truckers.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/briefing/2_8.htm

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A partial listing of Myanmar's insurgent groups, illegal political parties and rebels.

All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF)

Burmese Communist Party (BCP)

Chin National Front (CNF))

Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB)

Karenni Liberation Army (KLA)

Karenni Peoples United Liberation Front (KPULF)

Kayah New Land Revolution Council (KNLRC)

Kuomintang (KMT)

Ma Ha Faction of the Wa Army

Mon Liberation Front (MLF)

National Democratic Front (NDF)

National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB)

Pa-O Shan State Independence Party (PSSIP)

Palaung State Liberation Organization (PSLO)

Tai National Army (TNA)

Shan United Revolutionary Army (SURA)

Shan United Army (SUA)

United Pa-O Organization (UPO)

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1997/ASA/31602097.htm