Chapter 4 Kun Sha's Arrest and Rescue

Mr. Kunsha, who turned 48 years old this year (1982), is an orphan and was brought up by his grandfather. Wandering away, he didn't return to his hometown, Danyanglaimo Mountain, Shan State, Myanmar, until he could protect himself and resist the pressure of Mr. Bomeng, the chief of the Kawa tribe.That year was 1954, when he was only 20 years old, he used his chieftain's mansion (actually just a large compound) as a base to recruit troops, gather heroes from the Han and Shan nationalities, and develop a rudimentary military force . When the Burmese government encouraged the Shan people to form self-defense forces, Mr Khun Sa immediately seized the opportunity to pledge his allegiance to the central government.Because he is a chieftain himself, it is in the arms of the Burmese government for a loyal chieftain to fight against a rebellious chieftain.Colonel Maung Sui, the commander of the Northeast Military Region of Myanmar, was overjoyed and formally appointed him as the "commander of the People's Self-Defense Force in the Bright Area".But what really made him go straight to Xiaohan was another measure. The Burmese government believed in his loyalty, not only issued him weapons, but also sent military instructors to conduct strict military training for his troops.The wishful thinking of the Burmese government is to train a brave mountain corps to deal with other traitors.The Burmese government was not disappointed. Sure enough, it trained a brave mountain corps, which became the nemesis of other rebellious tribes. Soon, Mr. Kun Sha almost controlled the overall situation of Shan State—except for Mr. Luo Xinghan's armed forces.

This is an embarrassing situation, at least it is a very obvious situation where the tail is too big to lose. The Myanmar government decided to preemptively capture the thief and the king, and attack Mr. Kunsha. One day in October 1969, Colonel Tandin, who succeeded the commander of the Northeast Military Region of Burma, sent a telegram from Taunggyi, where his headquarters is located, inviting Mr. Kun Sha to attend an emergency military meeting and dispatched a plane to Lashio meet.This is a grand courtesy. Mr. Kun Sha departed from his base Danyang and boarded the plane after arriving in Lashio.He obviously didn't know that the grand reception was a trap. When he arrived in Taunggyi and was sent to the military headquarters by jeep, he realized that there was no emergency meeting at all, but only the prison.An ancient Chinese proverb says: "There is no good banquet in the banquet, and there is no good meeting in the meeting." It has been fulfilled again.

While detaining Mr. Kun Sha, the Burmese government forces launched a sweep against the Ningliang Area Self-Defense Forces.Then, another legendary figure stood out, Mr. Zhang Suquan, Mr. Kunsha's assistant, quickly gathered the defeated remnant soldiers and fled to Congshan.He has a flexible political mind that can be said to be far-sighted. He knows that drug trafficking is a business that is despised by others. The naked "opium general" Mr. Luo Xinghan is not enough to follow.And the Self-Defense Force disintegrated overnight and became an illegal organization. They could no longer display this signboard.However, his wisdom relieved him of his predicament, and he declared that his troops were the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" and the purpose of fighting was to fight for the independence of Shan State.

This is a moving political call, a fire that everyone knows what's behind it, from a purely internal incident to an international self-determination - the sacred war of national self-determination.During my stay in Thailand, almost all the people I met, regardless of their nationality, sneered at this aboveboard goal. A senior Thai official said with a dumbfounded smile: "If they are the revolutionary army, all the drug dealers in the world are revolutionaries." It’s over.” However, no one admired this as a successful political breakthrough.When the Myanmar government asked other countries for their assistance, other countries acknowledged the political motives of the Shan State Revolutionary Army.It is said that a few years ago, the Carter administration of the United States sent an informal delegation to investigate the relationship between "independence" and "drug trafficking" and brought back sympathetic answers.

The "Shan State Revolutionary Army" finally stabilized its position. Mr. Zhang Suquan, the chief of staff of the "Revolutionary Army", began to rescue the commander Mr. Kun Sha who was imprisoned in Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.This is not an easy task. For a dictatorial regime bent on going its own way, it is more difficult to ask them to release political prisoners than to teach them to spit out the delicacies they have swallowed.Mr. Zhang Suquan decided to adopt a trick. Three years after Mr. Kun Sha was arrested, in the spring of 1973, it was the traditional water-sprinkling festival in Myanmar. At the location, along the public women and children's hospital, until the high-end residential area of ​​Didobao, sentry posts are set up.A grand banquet is being held in the castle, it seems to be a wedding, it also seems to be a party, anyway, no matter what, the guests come one after another.A Burmese military officer with a guard stood at the door. The guests greeted the Burmese government with such thoughtful protection, with eyes and gestures of gratitude. The officer also responded with the same eyes and gestures, and carefully identified everyone faces.Finally, when the two doctors from Soviet Russia, Mr. Blakes and Mr. Star, arrived, Burmese military officers stopped them and checked their identities, proving that they had not mistakenly identified them.

"I'm very sorry," the officer said, "Our intelligence agency has something urgent to do, please go and discuss it." The Russians stayed there in astonishment. People who grew up in a terrifying police state have a keen fear of institutions like the "Intelligence Bureau".The Burmese officer obviously misunderstood the reason for the shock, thinking that they had noticed something, so the two gun barrels quickly pressed against their backs, like a hijacking scene in a movie, where the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" captured the hostages.