Chapter 7 three counterattacks

No opium was found, which made Mr. Kunsha confident.The Thai government and international anti-drug organizations, as well as public opinion all over the world, say he is a drug lord, well, after this raid, where are the drugs?Like Mr. Hu Shi, openly question: "Show evidence." The Thai government suffers from lack of evidence, so it has to publicize the following two things—— First, the border police seized a lot of weapons and ammunition, including 8,000 powerful machine guns and 20 tons of bullets, which were placed on Manxingdie Street for reporters from all over the world to take pictures.But this can only add to the lively atmosphere, and cannot prove Mr. Kun Sha's drug trafficking charges. Of course, the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" has weapons and ammunition. If there are no weapons and ammunition, what will they use to fight for the independence of Shan State?Do you rely on stones and sticks?

Second, when the Thai National Defense Force took over the task of the border police and entered the northern mountainous area of ​​Manxingdi, they found poppies in one place, and a soldier grabbed them in his hand and shouted: "The government has repeatedly issued communiqués saying that there is no opium in our country. Where did this come from?" of?" Thai newspapers published this irritating scene in particular.But this also proves nothing, because everyone knows that the cultivation of opium in northern Thailand and eastern Myanmar—the so-called Golden Triangle—had already existed there before Mr. Kun Sha and even Mr. Luo Xinghan were born.

After the Thai National Defense Forces took over the border police, they advanced into the mountains and had shooting battles. However, on the 24th of the first lunar month (Lunar New Year’s Eve), the military operations were completely stopped. Some shootings that occurred later were isolated and sporadic. Yes, with few casualties.According to Mr. Remarque's definition of war in "All Quiet on the Western Front", this vigorously publicized anti-drug war came to an end on January 24.The future development is just a matter of how to deal with the aftermath, but the difficulty is also here. No matter who it is, in the current situation, there is no good way to deal with the aftermath.

The Zhang family not only lost Man Xingdie, but also lost face—that is, prestige. Mr. Kunsha felt resentful of being betrayed by his friends.On the 25th of January, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, when Chinese people all over the world were enjoying the warm Spring Festival together, Mr. Kun Sha launched a counterattack to give the Thai government some color.This counterattack was given the following headlines in Thai newspapers: Drug dealers retaliate Assault on police station A police box and four cars were burned And affected the local people five dead and four injured

Among the "five deaths", the spokesman of Thailand's State Council, Mr. Naithelom, pointed out that four were civilians and one was a policeman.Mr. Kunsha's assistant said that no one died, the policemen who "died in the line of duty" were just captured by them and released after the "peace talks".But they robbed Yu Niang?The Taihua Farmers Bank in the center caused heavy losses to the Taihua Farmers Bank.Thai newspapers did not publish the figures of the losses, but only published a rumor that Mr. Kunsha had sold a batch of heroin worth about one million baht—about the equivalent of gold About one hundred taels, the buyer paid with a check from Taihua Farmers Bank, but it failed to cash.

This action shocked the border region greatly. The second shock came one after another. Two days later, on the 27th day of the first lunar month (the third day of the first month of the lunar calendar), Mr. Kun Sha’s troops bombarded the Thai Defense Forces with Type 913 mortars. At three o'clock in the morning on the twenty-eighth.The Thai High Command said only three shots were fired.But the refugees who fled to the south of Manxingdi, five kilometers away in Huilong Village (a village of all Chinese), believed that it was a series of artillery battles.While the artillery battle was going on, a death squad composed of 30 heroes sneaked into the road ten kilometers southeast of Manxingdie, and successively intercepted three passenger cars, three small trucks, one sand truck, and an electric vehicle. One bicycle and two road hall trucks were robbed of their contents and finally set on fire, but no one was killed.

——My guide and I went to pay homage to the burning site, but the car wreckage has been transported away, only a scorched dirt road.Ms. Wani Rajman, deputy spokesperson of the Thai government, said in a statement: "The Khunsa armed men who intercepted the above-mentioned vehicles and people's property seem to be very tired, because they are very short of food." But as far as I know, they Not lacking. The third counterattack occurred at 11 a.m. on the next day (28th). In Shalu Village, about two kilometers south of the interception point, Mr. Kun Sha’s death squad surrounded the local 201 troops. Border Police Unit.In this operation, neither side suffered losses.The death squads were afraid that the reinforcements from Thailand would come and make them fall into a counter-siege, so they only held a stalemate for ten minutes before retreating and disappearing into the dense mountains and forests.

At the same time as this last symbolic counterattack, the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" distributed leaflets written in Chinese.They don't have any mass media, and they don't have newspapers or radio stations to defend them. All the reports the world hears and sees come from the Thai government and Western journalists.Since the outbreak of the war, and before I went to Starfield, no Chinese reporter had contact with Mr. Kunsha's personnel.Their only way is to distribute leaflets. The leaflets are written in Chinese because they don't know Thai. The leaflet firmly stated that the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" absolutely did not traffic in drugs, and all their arms were taken from the Burmese army.Their sole purpose is to fight for the independence of Shan State, and they have no intention of harming Thailand.They are stationed in the Thailand-Myanmar border region and have made great contributions to preventing Thailand's foreign policy from "revolutionary elements".However, the Thai government attacked their advanced bases, causing serious damage to the revolutionary army, residents, and houses. They demanded an apology and compensation.And threatened that if the Thai government refused, it would lead to greater conflict.

——"Absolutionist" is a term used by the Thai government and mass media, including the Thai Communist Party, the Communist Party of Miao, Muslim separatists, and any type of armed group that opposes the government.The foreign policy of "revolutionary elements" in the leaflet means that if the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" is not separated, the Burmese Communist Party may go south and join the Thai Communist Party.