Drug Army Surrenders In Burma

German News Agency, as reported in the Vancouver Sun, Canada
January 4, 1996

BANKOK - The army of Brumese drug lord Khun Sa, known as the Mung Tai Army, has surrendered to Brumese troops who have occupied his Ho Mong headquarters in the heart of the Golden Triangle.

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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