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Chang Chi Fu --OR -- Chang Sheefu -



Subject: Chang Chi Fu --OR -- Chang Sheefu - whats the real Khun Sa 

would some one tell me the CORRECT name for KS, Chang Chi Fu OR Chang
Sheefu (or does this distinction here not matter at all even in terms of
exactitude)ds


S.Wansai wrote:
> SHAN HERALD AGENCY FOR NEWS
> 
> 20 October 1999
> 
> No: 10 - 21
> 
> Back To The Past-Today
> 20 October 1969
> 
> Khun Sa Arrested!
> 
> Khun Sa a.k.a Chang Sheefu, well-known militia chief of Loimaw, was
> taken
> into custody by the Burmese Army today.
> 
> Khun Sa, 35, was in Taunggyi "to attend a special meeting" called by
> the
> Eastern Command. The meeting did not materialize, and he was detained
> by
> Col. Than Tin, the Eastern Command's commander, instead.
> 
> According to him, it was the "Kuomintang remnants" who sold him out to
> the
> Burmese by informing them that he was plotting to rebel.
> 
> The KMT and Khun Sa fought for 3 days on the Laotian soil in 1967,
> later to
> be known as the "1967 Opium War". They also fought again the following
> year
> in northern Shan State's Monglern. Failing to dislodge Khun Sa from
> the
> fight over the monopolization of the opium trade, the KMT had resorted
> to
> "selling information to the Burmese", according to Khun Sa.
> 
> Khun Sa was to spend nearly 5 years in jail until he was released on 7
> 
> September 1974.
> 
> However, observers noted that Khun Sa knew beforehand that he might be
> 
> arrested, and he anticipated it by getting in touch with the Shan
> State
> Army. As a result, most of his troops were able to escape disarmament
> by
> the Burma Army and join the SSA.
> 
> "How could he know beforehand and then allow himself to be arrested?",
> Khun
> Kya Nu, one of the skeptical observers questioned. He for one believed
> 
> instead that Khun Sa was going through an elaborate planning for
> action
> against the Shan resistance, under the tutelage of the Burma Army.
> 
> Shan Herald Agency for News.
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