Wired News on June 27, 1995

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Burmese Monk in Thailand Sought for Killing

      BANGKOK, June 27 (Reuter) - Police were searching for a Buddhist monk
from Burma whom they say stabbed a Thai woman to death on Tuesday and wounded
six other people during a robbery at a shelter for illegal immigrants from
Burma. 

    Four of the wounded people were fellow Burmese living in the same house
in a Bangkok suburb, police said. 

    Police alleged that the monk drugged the victims with the intention of
robbing them before the attack took place. 

    The monk later fled the scene with some stolen goods, they said. 

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Burma Says Heroin Output Down in Northeast

      RANGOON, Burma (Reuter) - Heroin production in northeastern Burma has
been reduced significantly since opium warlord Khun Sa's army was forced out
of strategic strongholds, official Burmese media reported Tuesday. 

    Lt-Gen. Maung Thint, vice-chairman of the central committee for
drug-abuse control, said in a speech that the quantity of heroin manufactured
in the region had dropped since Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army was forced back
following a two-month offensive that ended in mid-May. 

    ``Now emphasis is put on the annihilation of Khun Sa's drug-trafficking
terrorists,'' official media reported him as saying. ``Our forces succeeded
in cleaning up some important strongholds of Khun Sa and as a result about
one third of their production capacity was vanquished.'' 

    Domestic consumption and trafficking of drugs is now under control, Maung
Thint said. 

    Khun Sa is under indictment in the United States on drug trafficking
charges and has been identified by international narcotics officials as one
of the world's drug ``kingpins.'' 

    Separately, officials met to discuss the eradication of poppy plantations
in the Wa region of Shan state, where Khun Sa is also based. 

    Official media reported that Japanese and U.S. embassy officials praised
efforts by the ethnic minority Wa to eradicate poppy growing. 

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