Mak Thai Army organization
also: Maktai Army
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“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…”
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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…
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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…
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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…