THE GOLDEN TRIANGE In right side-view picture is Gen. Li of the Chinese Koumintang Army who fled deeper into Burma with his 2,000 strong soldiers after the successful Peoples Revolution in Mainland China led by Mao tze-Tung in 1949. With financial and arms support extended by the U.S. who by then fear the fast expansion of Communism, Gen. Li was able to organize the natives who are hush poppies planters and opium producers into a group of drug-traffickers which eventually gave the three mountainous boundaries of Laos, Burma and Thailand a beautiful name with dangerous implication The Golden Triangle, the source of the best (injectable drug) heroin in the world called China White. - Source, Asia Week.
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 06:15:45 +0000
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