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The BurmaNet News: February 25, 1996
Issue #350

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THE NATION: KHUN SA FELLED BY HEART ATTACK

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THE NATION: KHUN SA FELLED BY HEART ATTACK

February 24, 1996

Associated Press

BANGKOK - Opium warlord Khun Sa has suffered a heart attack
and is being treated by doctors and nurses sent to his
jungle headquarters by the Burmese government, an officer in
the warlord's army said yesterday. Details about the
seriousness of his condition are not yet known.

The rebel officer, who demanded anonymity, said Khun Sa is
also suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes.

The opium warlord surrendered to the Slorc on Jan 5. Since
then, more than 13,000 troops from his Mong Tai Army (MAT)
have given themselves up, according to Burmese state-run
media.

Reports from dissident groups near the Thai-Burmese border
say that a rebel band of several hundred troops unhappy with
the surrender are still at large and trying to link up with
other ethnic Shan guerrilla groups.

Khun Sa funded his two-decade insurgency against the Slorc
in Rangoon by trafficking in massive amounts of opium and
heroin. More than 60 per cent of the heroin sold in the US
originates from the area where he operated: the Golden
Triangle, a mountainous no-man's land where the borders of
Burma, Laos and Thailand converge.

The US government has put a US$2 million (Bt50 million)
bounty on Khun Sa's head and asked the Burmese government
for his extradition, but Rangoon has refused. Since his
surrender, Khun Sa has not been charged.

The rebel officer also said the Burmese government is
allowing Khun Sa to build a modern 200-unit housing estate
near Rangoon airport where he and some of his followers will
live.

His headquarters in Ho Mong is being administered by a joint
council of three Burmese and three MAT officials, he said.
(TN)


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BKK POST: KHUN SA’S TOWN GETS NEW RULE
February 24, 1996
AFP

Drug warlord Khun Sa’s former major township, Ho Mong, has
been declared a district of Loikaw province under the
administration of the Rangoon regime.

Thai official sources said the State Law and Order
Restoration Council has also named three former aides of
Khun Sa to sit on the six-man ruling committee to administer
Ho Mong.

Khun  Sa, said the sources, is still living at his villa in
Ho Mong. The drug warlord is suffering from hypertension,
heart problems and diabetes. He is being cared for by a team
of doctors and nurses from Rangoon, said the sources.

* In Washington, a US human rights group called on Britain
to cancel a trade delegation leaving for Burma. Britain’s
Department of Trade and Industry is sponsoring a trip by a
group of more than 30 company representatives to Rangoon
February 25-March 1, the first to Burma in five years, Human
Rights Watch said.

“The trade mission is taking place just weeks before the UN
Commission on Human Rights convenes in Geneva and considers
resolutions censuring the military government in Burma for
violation of human rights,” it said.

The human rights organisation argued that “any increased
investment now will only help prolong military rule in Burma
and the British Government should therefore not be promoting
increased trade links in this way.” (BP)

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