Opium cultivation and trade flourishes in the…

1949 CE

Opium cultivation and trade flourishes in the Shan States of Burma, which gains independence from Britain in 1948.

From 1949, remnants of the defeated Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) Army who shelter in the North East of Burma are helped by the United States to partly finance their resistance by selling opium, and subsequently heroin.

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Myitkyina Kachin Myanmar View →

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