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Ex-Khun Sa guerrillas kill 25 civil



Subject: Ex-Khun Sa guerrillas kill 25 civilians in ambush 


 Ex-Khun Sa guerrillas kill 25 civilians in ambush 
 09:16 a.m. Jun 17, 1997 
 RANGOON, June 17 (Reuter) - Ten guerrillas of former opium warlord Khun Sa
 killed 25 civilians and wounded another five late last week when they
ambushed a
 civilian convoy in eastern Shan state, Burma's defence ministry said on
Tuesday. 

 The ministry said in a statement the guerrillas, former members of Khun
Sa's Mong
 Tai Army, staged the ambush on June 13 near Tachileck, a major trading post
 bordering Thailand. 

     No other details were immediately available.   Khun Sa, an
 ethnic Chinese Shan, led about 10,000 of his guerrillas and
 civilian followers to surrender to the Burmese government in
 January 1996 after decades of fighting for autonomy for the Shan
 state.

 Diplomats said Khun Sa, who once controlled vast areas of the opium-growing
 Golden Triangle, was currently permitted to live in luxury in Rangoon. 

 The Golden Triangle covers border areas of Burma, Thailand and Laos.
 ^REUTER@