UWSA -A state within a state

Once a reclusive clan of headhunters, Burma's Wa tribe has become Asia's most dangerous drug cartel

Daily News

  • Wa money can only be from drugs
  • Myanmar's feared Wa fighters resent "narco-army" reputation
  • Myanmar denies drugs made in army camps
  • Burmese Wa army the culprits
  • Thai general accuses Burmese soldiers of trafficking speed pills
  • Burma `makes drugs in own camps'

  • Wa's Bad Influence Felt in Manipur
  • Cracks in Burma's Ties With The Wa
  • Myanmar's Wa State Leader on Drug Control

  • Infamous triangle is still tainted
  • Wa-specific policy urged by academic
  • Burma "shocked" at suggestion of US air strikes against drug army
  • Wa drug cartel in US sights
  • US urged to strike
  • Myanmar alleges Thai army supports ethnic rebel attacks
  • Thai army trades fire with Myanmar drug force
  • Thai military set to attack Burma drug army
  • Thai army poised to attack Wa
  • Controversy abounds over druglord's whereabouts

  • Wa front firm still operating
  • Strongman to target druglord's company
  • Hong Pang Company begins upgrading Rangoon-Mandalay highway
  • Bank guests 'close to junta, drug lords'
  • Rangoon to Honolulu? No problem
  • Burma tribe takes over bank and airline

  • Myanmar say it will consider extraditing major suspects
  • Wei syndicate 'frighteningly large'
  • Wei follower threatens to take revenge
  • No hopes for Burma's full co-operation against Wei
  • We'll take Wei dead or alive - Thaksin
  • US welcomes Thai drug crackdown
  • WA KINGPIN: Drug lord's assets seized
  • U.S. Adds Khun Sa and Wei Hsueh Kang to World Drug Kingpin Suspect List
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    SPECIAL EDITION

  • The Wa go from strength to strength
  • Fighting Burma's drugs trade
  • In the lair of the world's most notorious drug warlord
  • Soldiers of Fortune
  • The UWSA aims at state within a state
  • The Wa a work in progress
  • New lives for ex-opium farmers take root
  • Thailand - tracking the traffickers
  • Drugs and thugs along the border
  • Thai PM challenges Burma to act on Mong Yawn
  • Yangon's anti-drug spin
  • Net closing on Golden Triangle drug baron
  • Myanmar looks for poppy power substitute
  • Transplanted Trouble
  • Drug-tainted village takes pride in poppy purge
  • Advantage drug lords
  • The Wa People: Cannon-fodders or Drugs Traffickers?