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La « guerre contre la drogue » n’est déclarée qu’après la fin du commerce de l’opium exécuté par les alliés asiatiques des #USA . La guerre de l’opium de 1967 coincide avec la la dernière phase de la french connection et l’avènement des circuits asiatiques. Plus tard d’autres alliés étatsuniens reprendront les affaires malgré les positions politique affichées publiquement par Washington.
L’implication d’unités nationalistes chinoises en relation avec le gouvernement de Tapei dans un conflit au Laos est un indice pour l’interdépendance des conflits asiatiques.
The CIA was the lead American agency in the American penetration of Laos that resulted in the Laotian Civil War. One of its agents, William Young, was a missionary’s son recruited for his cultural understanding of hill tribes in northwestern Laos. He founded a base for a guerrilla force at Nam Yu, Laos, near the triple border junction of China, Burma, and Laos.
Marooned in the vicinity were the remnants of the Kuomintang that had been stranded there when the Chinese Civil War ended in a communist victory. Although Young recruited some of the Nationalist Chinese into the Royal Lao Armed Forces Batallon Especiale 101 (Special Battalion 101), many of the others became involved in the opium trade. Although they were funded by the Republic of China for intelligence activities and espionage, their money was cut off in 1961. When the KMT generals shifted to opium trading, they claimed it as a necessity to fund their armies. In short order, the KMT troops soon controlled 90 percent of the Burmese opium. Still maintaining their military capabilities, including a radio net for communications and weaponry that included crew-served weapons such as .50 caliber machine guns and 75mm recoilless rifles, the KMT would move caravans of 100 to 600 pack mules loaded with raw opium without interference. Their largest shipments contained nearly 20 tons of raw opium. They charged a “transit tax” on the opium they handled or protected.
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The resultant embarrassing bad publicity from the opium war brought on a Thai crackdown on all the Kuomintang remaining on their northern border. Prior to the 1967 Opium War, the Thais and KMT had preserved a fiction that the Chinese were civilian refugees seeking asylum. After the Chinese exposure caused by the battle at Ban Khwan, the Royal Thai Army began strictly supervising the Kuomintang units, insisting that their commanders be accountable for their troops. Eventually, the Thais would quietly legitimize the KMT as paramilitary units. The KMT’s revenue from the opium trade was much diminished; their 15-year control of the smuggling routes, collecting their “transit tax”, had ended with the fighting at Ban Khwan.
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