Ailing ceasefire leader whisked to Hongkong

Ailing ceasefire leader whisked to Hongkong

Sai Leun a.k.a. Lin Mingxian who suffered a second massive stroke in late October was transferred to Hongkong on 28 January after a Kunming hospital decided he was a hopeless case, said an informed source from the Chinese border, reports Moengzay.

Sai Leun, 53, leader of the National Democratic Alliance Army a.k.a. Eastern Shan State Army was moved to the island hospital after a period of debate and inquiries. "Since he has already been removed from the annual blacklist of the United States in 2000, his wife and the executive committee finally decided it was safe to send him there," said the source. "Anyway who'd want to arrest a suspect who cannot even move or speak?"

Sai Leun was replaced by Kyi Myint a.k.a. Zhang Zhiming, his closest comrade since their days as red guards during the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-70). Another vice-chairman office was also created for Sai Leun's son (name unavailable as yet). The other two vice chairmen are Sarm Pler and Khun Sanglu.

Gen Khin Nyunt who was on his way to Tachilek also called at Mongla, NDAA's headquarters, on 17 January to inquire about his condition, said the source.

Mongla, 60 miles northeast of Kengtung and opposite Taluo, is "a town that drugs built," according to Andrew Marshall in Time, 28 January issue. It used to be a transshipment area for smuggling Chinese laborers through Thailand and into America. About 10,000 Chinese tourists visit it everyday to see the transvestite "trannie" shows, the Reclining Buddha, the National Races Museum " actually a kind of human zoo," "Burman" ladies washing and playing with water, the opium museum and gaudy casinos. "(Mongla) sounds a bit like Shangrila," he writes, but among those who know it, the border town has been nicknamed "the anus of China."