No officials of the mung Tai Army at Ho Mong, its headquarters in the Shan state of Burma, were available fo coment on what appeared to be a capitulation by Burma's last rebel army to the military junta that has ruled Rangoon since September 1988.
Khun Sa, so-called kingpin of the opium-rich Golden Triangle for the past 25 years, announced his retirement last month.
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