Khun Sa person
also: Kun Sa, Khunsab, Coonsaw
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Claims (4)
Khun Sa trafficked
Burma book_quoted
“an Asian warlord by the name of Kun Sa, S-A, who died this week. And he commanded an army of thousands and supplied as much as a quarter of the world's heroin. A quarter, 25% of the world's heroin. And this article was written in 2007. So i…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 16:12
Khun Sa member_of
Mak Thai Army book_quoted
“nationalist version crowd in Burma. An already devoted band of fighters was consolidated on the Thai border and eventually became the Mak Thai Army, a fighting force of over 20,000 troops. By the 1980s, officials estimated that Khun Sa cont…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 23:09
Khun Sa headed
Shan State National Army book_quoted
“He convened a parliament attended by hundreds of delegates and later announced the formation of an independent Shan State, of which he declared himself the president. But control of his own forces began to slip away. There was another facti…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 25:10
James Bo Gritz spied_on
Khun Sa host_asserted
“into the mountains of northern Burma to visit opium warlord named Khun Sa, who commanded a tribal army estimated at about 40,000 men. Gritz has said that their primary mission from Colonel Harvey at the NSC was to check out a tip Vice Presi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 19 @ 52:23
Mentions (11)
▶ 15:41
But the beauty of reading their words is they've told us most of everything that they're doing, but they do it in a way that we don't understand it because we don't have real history taught to us anymore. Okay, so we're going to start off w…
▶ 16:12
an Asian warlord by the name of Kun Sa, S-A, who died this week. And he commanded an army of thousands and supplied as much as a quarter of the world's heroin. A quarter, 25% of the world's heroin. And this article was written in 2007. So i…
▶ 23:09
nationalist version crowd in Burma. An already devoted band of fighters was consolidated on the Thai border and eventually became the Mak Thai Army, a fighting force of over 20,000 troops. By the 1980s, officials estimated that Khun Sa cont…
▶ 24:40
against the Burmese government, kind of heightened in 1994. And there was also infighting with a rival by the name of Wah Hill tribe. And that was beginning to take its toll on the Shan separatist movement. With the situation increasingly d…
▶ 25:10
He convened a parliament attended by hundreds of delegates and later announced the formation of an independent Shan State, of which he declared himself the president. But control of his own forces began to slip away. There was another facti…
▶ 25:39
Kunsa of using Shan separatism as a front for running drugs. Oh, that's a big surprise. Facing increasingly determined foes and with his movement falling apart, he did what he felt he needed to do. He surrendered to the government. However,…
▶ 26:08
by the regime he had fought against for so long. And many of the Maktai army soldiers became members of the militia that helped maintain the repressive regime. According to his family, Khun Sa died at age 74. And one of the former guerrilla…
▶ 52:23
into the mountains of northern Burma to visit opium warlord named Khun Sa, who commanded a tribal army estimated at about 40,000 men. Gritz has said that their primary mission from Colonel Harvey at the NSC was to check out a tip Vice Presi…
▶ 52:49
As with Grits' earlier mission, the U.S. government denies any involvement. However, no one has explained why Grits and Weakley were meeting and speaking with National Security Council officials, which was well documented. After a three-day…
▶ 53:15
What he did know about, Gritz claimed, was a CIA-run heroin trafficking network that had been operating in the region for more than a decade. Way more than a decade, because we know all about that. Gritz said that Khun Sa, who controlled mu…
▶ 54:42
Grits, as they always do when somebody's telling the truth, it received some wire service and radio coverage, particularly in Oklahoma City. Weekly's prosecutor, Steve Korotash, was driving to the supermarket when he heard Grits come over t…