that’s the root cause of why america’s inner cities are so violent and out of control. in the 70s even maybe up to the 90s the drug game was monopolized by key players who would be the “man” in their community. however once the US gov knocked these guys out through prison or killing them the drug empires were all split apart and they turn their cities into warzones.
@@Opttoz777 they minimize brain usage by squinting their eyes to reroute the energy for better concentration,just like having game face on 100%of the time Neva rerax
Worst part of coming off smack and other very addictive drugs is no t coming off them don’t get me wrong that is brutal and I’d rather be locked somewhere for a few days so you can’t break and give up and go off and score drugs because you have in your mind from the first minute you go into that pit I’m not getting out of here so for 5 days even if you want to score you can’t. But as I was saying coming of the drug is brutal but living without the drug is even more brutal because nearly every person in the world has issues and some has has more issues and problems than others that’s why they take the drug to forget there problems and when you come of the drug all your problems will come flooding back and you can imagine the strength off the opium or heroin the kids are taking in these poor country’s that the poppy is grown and the price they pay for it I wouldn’t blame the people from them poor war torn country’s from taking drugs just to forget the shitty hand they were dealt in life the D.E.A can kill or capture all these drug lords but drugs like heroin cocaine crystal meth weed and many other drugs are here to stay and worse it’s getting not better.
His drug business would make a great show/documentary . His business/ situation is so controversial. Only because he was never killed or incarcerated. He has achieved a political status that only all other drug kingpins ever wish and wanted to achieve. He is Definitely one and I think will alway be one of the most underrated king pins of all time. This is the perfect example of what millennials like to call “The G.O.A.T”
@@disrael2101 life’s hard man. Child labor is a better alternative to dying from infection. Child labor is result of harsh life and most countries practiced it when building from scratch.
Im from Nagaland India and a former addict, our state is so corrupted its easy for drugs to roam. Im still hooked on Weed that i grow myself so things are going quite smoothly. Drugs will only end if something better overshadows it. God bless you all.
@@rockydubois2418 No, Ale Moras is correct. Weed is not addictive and is not a hard drug. It is literally a herb and too much of it can cause issues like anything, but it is not physically addictive.
Hell yeah it would be one the best. His life and situation is more controversial. Only bc unlike any other drug pin, he was never incarcerated or killed.
"In 1988, Khun Sa Khun Sa offered to sell his entire heroin crop to the Australian Government for A$ 50m a year for the next eight years, a move that would have virtually stopped the heroin trade into both Australia and the United States overnight. The Australian Government rejected the offer, with Senator Gareth Evans declaring: “The Australian Government is simply not in the business of paying criminals to refrain from criminal activity.” They don't want to stop it. Just control who profits.
The drug production in Myanmar (Burma) has changed mainly to methamphetamine since the retirement of Khun Sa (Heroin moved to Afghanistan). Nowadays, Myanmar's ehnic minority armies are second only Mexico's cartels in the production of methamphetamine
I got alot of relatives over in one of the countries where the Golden triangle is and everyone knows it's the biggest business for police and politicians in the area, where do you think most of the drugs and money go after ? That's right, it's never gonna stop, the police and politicians will never let it stop.
we (Thais) and DEA conduct a operation tiger trap to take down Khun Sa and his man down. but Luckily Khun sa and his man surrender to burma army for not go to court in USA.and Khun sa died because old age 7 years ago.
You're right. That is a totally ridiculous concept. Handing over $50 million and destroying an illegal crop in its entirety is crazy. It makes way more sense to spend approx $144 billion/year financing a "war on drugs" where only a small percentage of said illegal crop is confiscated by the government and destroyed. The rest, of course, makes its way to a population of addicts to fuel plenty of crime, death, and suffering. But at least nobody is simply wasting money! :)
This document was random on my recommendation UA-cam list and I just wanna know about drugs lord but turn out unexpected that’s Khun Sa, Va Dang, Lao Ta and Mong Thai are ppl I used to met when I was young and never knew their real name. Only knew they’re my mother’s friends since she’d was 8 years old and they’re like kindness uncle and always told me “My niece, promise me one thing Don’t touch any drugs when you’re grownup.” Now I understand and still hold on my promise with em
@@judeisnot_rude correct. For some years his house and headquarters was in a town called Hin Taek (now named Thoet Thai) in Chiang Rai province in the north of Thailand. This area was the biggest producer of opium during his time there, which eventually caused the Thai authorities to force him out. Many of the Tai Yai (Shan) people stayed there. You can visit his old camp. About 20 minutes north of the town, across the border is an active base for the Shan State Army - South, the main Shan rebel group created after the dissolving of Khun Sa's army.
@@AaronBadboyPurser Correct, I've visited the Khun-Sa Museum at Thoet Thai several times, although last time (2022) it was closed. The man is remembered positively, locally.
H is their lifeblood, mate, the golden goose to milk the taxpayer into supporting their extravagant lifestyles near the jungles of the World, but Burma has always been the jungle of choice, since the waning days of the Empire
CIA is at the very top of the drug trafficking worldwide. The U.S. uses drugs around the world to control entire countries, to control people, to make money, to start wars, etc. etc. The poor people in these countries pay the price for the CIA so rich Americans can be billionaires in the U.S. John Kerry is one of them, his family has traded heroin to control China for over a 100 years. The CIA is just the way to control it all using the U.S. military budget. Very sad world.
From around 1770 to 1820 sales of British, Dutch and American controlled opium in China had increased by 22,000%! Khun Sa's operation was actually quite small by comparison. He also had to deal with competition for the market from other drugs sources; cocaine, designer cocktails and crack (later replaced by crystal meth). Inspite of western rhetoric drug abuse is encouraged in western nations because it makes wealthy backers (where are those offshore trust funds going?) even wealthier.
@@dmimz8593of course many of us who are clued up know but 99% of the population believe that governments have zero involvement in drug importation and distribution and we must be protected from these drugs for our own good because of course….they only have our best interests at heart. FFS….the majority of the world’s populous still believes that we landed on the moon!!! And on topic….why did the high grade and highly refined white heroin from this region get taken over by brown crude Afghan base heroin? Because it was a fresh marketing ploy pushed by global authorities as the “new safe heroin” knowing that smokable heroin would facilitate a whole new range of users who would have never in a million years considered IV drug use. I would also suggest that the golden triangle still continues to produces just much heroin as it always has but it will no longer be refined (#5) as it was before….Brown base heroin = more addicts = more government money and more destabilisation of society. Just what governments want!
Holy fuck!!! I thought I had it bad when I went through detox from methadone in jail. It was hell. I couldn't imagine being in a frickin pit in the ground. That has to be the closest feeling to actually being in hell.
Jail is the best place to get off it.In Syd Aust if you were not on Methadone when you was locked up you did it rock solid & you got nothing.They changed that abt 15-20yrs ago. Just abstain & you get back to normal within 2-3 mths.Sleep once every 3-4 days in the 1st 6 weeks then you good as gold.Dont even think of using in there or you be a candidate for aids or Hepatitis.Then you get out & as sure as night follows day you back amongst it.That monkey on your back grows into a gorilla.
I've been to the golden triangle it's pretty cool. You can see Laos, Burma and Thailand from one point. I believe they're closing the Thai - Burma border to tackle the drug smuggling. It's all yaba now, not as much hezza
The Chinese built a big casino/resort over on the Lao side. The Thai/Burma border is impossible to close down. Go up to Mae Sai or Fang or Mae Hong Song and look around: really rugged "dragon's tooth" mountains everywhere.
That's terrible how he forces their addicts to withdrawal in a locked pit. That's inhumane, dehumanizing, and dangerous. Although withdrawal is rarely fatal it can be.
borla64 you’re just a really helpful cog in society yourself aren’t ya? Lol you dumb fucker just wait till you have a child or sibling or close friend that’s an addict and see how you feel then
So much easier to detox off real heroin not these chemicals people are using in the states. It’s all fentanyl and other chemicals used to cut it, it makes the detox so much harder with weird symptoms.
Absolutely 💯 most people aren't good or evil and things aren't black or white most people and situations are grey some lighter shades some darker shades more good or evil but nobody is just good or evil
Mhas' I suppose it dose sound strange to us but as well as their chickens & food they took away their men too & did you see the children being trained as soldiers ? Well they came from the hill people also.Their lives are in danger. Life is unbelievably difficult for the hill people they can't survive on growing anything else than opium. You can go there & visit the hill people in Thailand as a tourist . And if you ask them for some weed they'll tell you they can only sell you opium. ( Do not buy it though) It's a big culture shock for us westerners . And don't get me started on what is going on in the Red LLight districts.Sad is not the word.It's beyond sad !
She was referring to the Burmese military who came and stole everything including their men. She and her family then moved to the other side of the river and began supplying Khun Sa's people with opium. What else could they do to survive? This documentary is about people with lots of power and people with zero power.
99% of Khun Sa's solders are from forced induction? That figure is both high and suspect, such a force would not be effective and your own life would constantly be in peril. For all Khun Sa's flaws, it seems the hill people could have worse, I've heard him speak before, I believe he genuinely cares about his people.
Khun Sa Is On Different level then Pablo And El Chapo as far as he ran his empire. He lived Modestly wasnt into buying luxury cars, jewelry, Zoo, etc...he lived like a Modest Revolutionary Leader like Fidel or Che Gueverra Ho Chi Minh similar to them. Not Flashy at all Khun Sa was and in a way you have to respect that even tho if is considered a Billionaire. Could he have lived Lavishly, YES
Forced rehab just makes people resent you especially if you make them suffer by putting them in a pit. The time after getting clean is the highest risk time for overdoses because they have no tolerance. They will likely use as soon as they get out to spite you as well.
there is no such thing as a gateway drug it is merely a decision of the drug taker But if you were to choose which drug out of Alcohol & pot is more likely to be a gateway to heroin , then it is marijuana with out a doubt. Only because some pot dealers also sell Heroin , not because one innately leads to the other To say alcohol is ever a gateway to heroin literally makes zero logical sense, and is silly. so NO the real gateway drug is actually NOT alcohol.
Basically, the gateway drug is the easyest illegal drug to get. I say illegal because once you get in the habit of buying drugs off the black market, it's not such a big step to get a different one. But I met a guy who said that he tried heroin before he tried anything else. Because of where he lived, it was what was around, and he had never even heard of anything else until later. Once he heard of them, he used it, so in his case, heroin was the gateway drug. A lot of young folks world wide start with solvents: glue, lighter fluid, gasoline, oven cleaner, liquid paper. It would be hard to ban all that stuff. Basically, some people try drugs. Of those, some people, a minority, are inclined to become addicted to them. Of the latter group, they will tend to get hooked on whatever is around, including, yes, alcohol. So, the gateway drug theory has a grain of truth in it, trying one thing often leads to trying another. But it is flawed in the idea that getting rid of one drug will keep people from trying others.
It would be gorgeous if was in my bedroom. But the fact it's going to either be burnt, or more than likely line some politicians pockets, makes it ugly af imho.
Think of the numbers of people involved in the drug trade and what would happen if the drugs suddenly dissapered. There would be millions of people out of work, the US imploys thousands of Police, prison guards, drug workers etc.
Dery ,memories don't leave like people do ,He is a visionary ,adventurer , and not wanting to Think ,Believe ,or Assume ,but to KNOW to be there and Do it , and he knew how to crunch the # s
***** Still chasin' the dragon...I cannot stress enough how fucked up it is when you're intrinsically inclined to an addictive personality and ODC coupled together...it's fucking a nightmare...I made 72k last year and most of it went to, well you know...separated from the wife, daughter...just a fucking nightmare which I cannot get myself out of. The wife called yesterday actually, every time she does the first thing she asks is, "are you clean yet??!!!" She still holds out hope for us which is endearing...I would've wrote myself off years ago.
People who don't have an addictive personality don't get it...they just don't. I'm a Sagittarius as well, "triple doom" I call it, we're fucking gluttons...we take from life till' life has nothing left to give...I wish I was like a nun who's never known sin.
Used literally pounds of his double 0 globe and Fish Eggs brand No.4 back in the early 80s onwards. Great gear but led to a lot of prison time and deaths of friends
@@AFaceintheCrowd01yes. in australia, double 0 globe is easily the most common. though users have dropped significantly since the 2000s so production has scaled back an diverted toward methamphetamine production. its only a matter of time before the heroin dries up and fentanyl takes its place, which will absolutely devastate this country. i also work with former opium farmers from Myanmar who've sought out asylum here.
Experience is the best teacher and I have far too much 1st hand experience when it comes to those matters. Physical withdrawls can and probably will be the worst pain you have felt or at least darn close. Does not make them impossible to go through.
You know that a car can run out of fuel, you also know a human can run out of life. And even though you (as a casual drug user) know much about drugs, you also know that you can die of a car accident.
This is using footage from a 3 part documentary called the Heroin wars shot over a period of thirty years if you want to understand the hypocrisy of the war on drugs I highly recommend finding this documentary
He surrendered to the government 1996, and died of a heart attack in 2007. He was not the only Chinese warlord in the Shan State. Other warlords are still controlling massive areas, but the production of opium had been generally ceased.
So I did a little research and he passed away about 10 years ago and about 2 years after this was made, I believe he had to relinquish his empire, but was able to live out his life through investments
Yes, it's true that no country should be blackmailed into financing some warlord's operation. Are you alluding to legalization/decriminalization when you say different ways of handling it? If so, you and I are absolutely in agreement. I was merely stating that if people continue to be deluded into billions of dollars "warring" against drugs and thinking they will ever be eliminated, simply buying all this dude's heroin for a fraction of the cost would be more effective than current measures.
cculb1 I agree with you on this,this is the most honest and sensible comment I’ve read on this and you wrote this years ago,and there’s no change for the better as the production has increased globally the world seems to be flooded with heroin I fear for the future
Look for a book "dope inc" if i rememeber correctly. it goes back to how the sassoons/rothchilds etc & UK got most their wealth. Drugs will NEVER be abolished
methadone saved my life aswell, been on the program for about 6 years now and i have been 100% clean since i got on the program. i have gone back to school studying and am now living a normal life. im not saying only methadone is the answer becuase you have to be motivated to quit also.
@@69AARVIPER What does it matter? He/She is doing great and living a happier life. Would you be saying anything if the person was taking heart medication? Are you against Tylenol for headaches? Coffee in the morning? I have chronic pain. Opioids made life tolerable, but Big Brother took those away from me, telling me they were addictive and deadly. It took about a weeks worth of pain before seeking out heroin. Then Suboxone to get off of heroin. Suboxone was as, if not harder to get off of than heroin. I heard that Methadone withdrawals are the worst of the 3. In the 1972 Consumer Union Report, it pointed out that, when street doses of heroin were far purer than they are today (China Cat and black-tar heroin scares notwithstanding), drug overdoses were practically unknown. It also noted that heroin overdoses began to be reported in New York City after World War II. Public officials can generally say any bad thing they want about illegal drugs. And they feel no doubt that labeling deaths as overdoses should scare most young people away from drugs. If it is not pure drugs that kill, but impure drugs and the mixture of drugs, then the myth of the heroin overdose can be dangerous. If users had a guaranteed pure supply of heroin which they relied on, there would be little more likelihood of toxic doses than occur with narcotics administered in a hospital.
Very informative. Why don't democratic countries like Canada, USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, etc., grow their own opium for processing into morphine and synthetic drugs for domestic medicinal consumption? Will the opium flower/poppy plant not grow in those countries? I read somewhere where that England had an opium farm in country licensed by the government to a private farming operation for consumption by the British through its regulated pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and physicians.
domestic farmers would be too greedy and too their employees meaning very high price for their crop. its the western thing to outsource just about anything for dirt cheap
Also worn in Burma. Bertil Lintner's wife is Shan. He spent a lot of time in Burma, reporting for The Far Eastern Economic Review, one of the really great news magazines. They were headquartered in Bangkok until Premier Thaksin Shinawatra made life miserable for them. The Shinawatras were a gangster political family that controlled Chiang Mai. They would have made a lot of money dealing directly or indirectly with Khun Sa.
Khun Sa passed away in 2007 and was buried in Yangon/Rangoon. He's survived by 8 children. Thank you.
Same year the movie American gangster was released, in the movie the drug lord who sells heroin to Frank Lucas is possibly based on Khun Sa
@@julia2k8it’s 100% based on him bro
I love these journeymanpictures docs. So varied and interesting.
"Where did you get the seeds?" 'From my grandparents' Good luck trying to stop the flow of opium.
"We'd like to congratulate......drugs.....for winning the war on drugs"
Exactly, too many drug kings.🤭🤣
@@hvwj86 drug grampas lol
I dont know about this channels new videos but these old docs they made are dope as hell. This was vice way before vice. Good job guys!!
That's a dope drug rehabilitation centre my homie Kahn Sa is providing.
To the pit you go
He is the most wanted unwanted man ever . That’s a big statement
The drugs will always be there. This guy is probably the best to run it.
@@xexxex3325 *was probably the best.
xEx xEx perfect example of “Asians always do it better”
that’s the root cause of why america’s inner cities are so violent and out of control. in the 70s even maybe up to the 90s the drug game was monopolized by key players who would be the “man” in their community. however once the US gov knocked these guys out through prison or killing them the drug empires were all split apart and they turn their cities into warzones.
@@Opttoz777 they minimize brain usage by squinting their eyes to reroute the energy for better concentration,just like having game face on 100%of the time Neva rerax
@@Opttoz777 I heard Asians do your mother better than your dad, but all I know is your sister tells me I'm a better lay than you
Lol I love their "drug rehabilitation center". A pit in the ground you can sit in for 5 days and get off the smack.
5 days ain't s**t your still going to feel like S**t. That's brutal
Straight reab for real men!!!
Worst part of coming off smack and other very addictive drugs is no t coming off them don’t get me wrong that is brutal and I’d rather be locked somewhere for a few days so you can’t break and give up and go off and score drugs because you have in your mind from the first minute you go into that pit I’m not getting out of here so for 5 days even if you want to score you can’t. But as I was saying coming of the drug is brutal but living without the drug is even more brutal because nearly every person in the world has issues and some has has more issues and problems than others that’s why they take the drug to forget there problems and when you come of the drug all your problems will come flooding back and you can imagine the strength off the opium or heroin the kids are taking in these poor country’s that the poppy is grown and the price they pay for it I wouldn’t blame the people from them poor war torn country’s from taking drugs just to forget the shitty hand they were dealt in life the D.E.A can kill or capture all these drug lords but drugs like heroin cocaine crystal meth weed and many other drugs are here to stay and worse it’s getting not better.
U try it see how u feel
Coming offs one thing, the lack of sleep usually lasts for months after and can make you feel like you’re loosing your mind.
His drug business would make a great show/documentary . His business/ situation is so controversial. Only because he was never killed or incarcerated. He has achieved a political status that only all other drug kingpins ever wish and wanted to achieve. He is Definitely one and I think will alway be one of the most underrated king pins of all time. This is the perfect example of what millennials like to call “The G.O.A.T”
Yes we would 🐐
He is the Asian of drug dealing, of course he was going to be the best.
@@garconvoute3024 Let me join you from NW 🇮🇳 🐐 🤝 I lived in 🇺🇸 7 years as well. Much love and respects. 🌹
Don't bring your basketball terminology here millennial.
@@judetchua stfu u late born 😆 🤣 possibly still born as well. Hahahaha
I really appreciate this man he built a community city with the proceeds and had a back-up plan very nice.
Netflix should be narcos: Myanmar, that would be amazing 😈
Could be nice if it wasn't done by forced child labor who can't resist
@@disrael2101 life’s hard man. Child labor is a better alternative to dying from infection. Child labor is result of harsh life and most countries practiced it when building from scratch.
Im from Nagaland India and a former addict, our state is so corrupted its easy for drugs to roam. Im still hooked on Weed that i grow myself so things are going quite smoothly. Drugs will only end if something better overshadows it. God bless you all.
its alright, smoke that earth baby, just make sure to lay off that other shit bruv
Weed is ok bro
Bullshit, this is not addiction! It’s love for a plant! Grow up and think with your mind
@@alemoras7672 calm down nobody’s trying to take your drugs bro. You sound like a junky
@@rockydubois2418 No, Ale Moras is correct. Weed is not addictive and is not a hard drug. It is literally a herb and too much of it can cause issues like anything, but it is not physically addictive.
One of Kuhn Sa’s Grandson is my friend. I was born and lived in TarChiLeik city(in Golden Triangle).
That black monk outta nowhere was the biggest surprise I've had in a while
Shows your ILLITERATE
Racy
Hahahhahahah
What you said wasn’t racist it was genius I was so surprised I jumped out of my seat and showed 3 of my friends they both had the same reaction
🤣
Am black and am surprised
This would be a great story to make into a TV show, just like the "Narcos".
This is the time after Don Pablo, it could be the Narcos 2.0
Ken Hung I think we should move to Mexican cartels after Don Pablo
then everyone from Myannmar's gonna walk around like they're gangster.
@@bonson9156 ofc there is gangster everywhere
Hell yeah it would be one the best. His life and situation is more controversial. Only bc unlike any other drug pin, he was never incarcerated or killed.
"In 1988, Khun Sa Khun Sa offered to sell his entire heroin crop to the Australian Government for A$ 50m a year for the next eight years, a move that would have virtually stopped the heroin trade into both Australia and the United States overnight. The Australian Government rejected the offer, with Senator Gareth Evans declaring: “The Australian Government is simply not in the business of paying criminals to refrain from criminal activity.”
They don't want to stop it. Just control who profits.
cculb1 to many kickbacks & more benefits for the pollies.keep that wheel turning.
Now we have Afghanistan producing the majority for the civilized world...
cculb1
Exactly
No shit I never knew that, and that proves they don't give a damn at all.
That's interesting.
I'm addicted to prescription glasses. Eye can't seem to quit.
Great documentary very interesting. I hope the situation in Burma has improved since this was filmed.
nope
Welp, this aged like milk.
The drug production in Myanmar (Burma) has changed mainly to methamphetamine since the retirement of Khun Sa (Heroin moved to Afghanistan). Nowadays, Myanmar's ehnic minority armies are second only Mexico's cartels in the production of methamphetamine
When it came to power this man had the most.
I got alot of relatives over in one of the countries where the Golden triangle is and everyone knows it's the biggest business for police and politicians in the area, where do you think most of the drugs and money go after ? That's right, it's never gonna stop, the police and politicians will never let it stop.
FYI: This documentary was made in 1994, the Mong Tai Army surrendered in 1996 and Khun Sa died in 2007.
how he die?
cobydrei A Heroin overdose ?, LOL ;)
First guy ever to die of weed !
Владимир thank you for tellin us this this was years agooo
we (Thais) and DEA conduct a operation tiger trap to take down Khun Sa and his man down. but Luckily Khun sa and his man surrender to burma army for not go to court in USA.and Khun sa died because old age 7 years ago.
You're right. That is a totally ridiculous concept. Handing over $50 million and destroying an illegal crop in its entirety is crazy. It makes way more sense to spend approx $144 billion/year financing a "war on drugs" where only a small percentage of said illegal crop is confiscated by the government and destroyed. The rest, of course, makes its way to a population of addicts to fuel plenty of crime, death, and suffering. But at least nobody is simply wasting money! :)
I could have sworn it was flaming dragon in control of everything......they really like that simple jack movie. sombody call Les Grossman.
they didn't give him tevo
wolfgdo tropic thunder 😂
I AM FRAMMINGG DWAGGGON
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This isn't just a drug kingpin story its about the poor struggling to survive
This document was random on my recommendation UA-cam list and I just wanna know about drugs lord but turn out unexpected that’s Khun Sa, Va Dang, Lao Ta and Mong Thai are ppl I used to met when I was young and never knew their real name. Only knew they’re my mother’s friends since she’d was 8 years old and they’re like kindness uncle and always told me “My niece, promise me one thing Don’t touch any drugs when you’re grownup.” Now I understand and still hold on my promise with em
Where was this music sampled from? Specifically the chanting that is throughout the entire documentary?
Jack Harkness
Netflix should do narcos: Myanmar, that would be amazing 😈
@MinKhant Aung but portuguese is spoken in Brésil??
No
The Opium war of 67 would make a great movie
You’re such a slave eric
Fuck that, we need a Far Cry game with something like this as a setting
I snorted a line of this back in 1988 in Pattaya ! Fuck me it flattened me out for hours !
All yaa baa now days
FUCK OFF
Botak kawasiki wah!orang rempit,lah.I know what botak is bro,cukur kepala,jumpa lagi.
+Botak kawasiki lol ur mad bruh
+shaun barnhill fuckin tweakers hahahaha
I've been inside his old house in Thailand a few times. My wife's family live near it, they are also Shan/Tai Yai, and moved there with him years ago.
Ya right
Burma is not Thailand?
@@judeisnot_rude correct. For some years his house and headquarters was in a town called Hin Taek (now named Thoet Thai) in Chiang Rai province in the north of Thailand. This area was the biggest producer of opium during his time there, which eventually caused the Thai authorities to force him out. Many of the Tai Yai (Shan) people stayed there. You can visit his old camp. About 20 minutes north of the town, across the border is an active base for the Shan State Army - South, the main Shan rebel group created after the dissolving of Khun Sa's army.
@@AaronBadboyPurser Correct, I've visited the Khun-Sa Museum at Thoet Thai several times, although last time (2022) it was closed. The man is remembered positively, locally.
dea is here just to control the bizness, they don't want heroin ti disepear
H is their lifeblood, mate, the golden goose to milk the taxpayer into supporting their extravagant lifestyles near the jungles of the World, but Burma has always been the jungle of choice, since the waning days of the Empire
Yeah cuz its such a big money maker for them and the government
CIA is at the very top of the drug trafficking worldwide. The U.S. uses drugs around the world to control entire countries, to control people, to make money, to start wars, etc. etc. The poor people in these countries pay the price for the CIA so rich Americans can be billionaires in the U.S. John Kerry is one of them, his family has traded heroin to control China for over a 100 years. The CIA is just the way to control it all using the U.S. military budget. Very sad world.
That black monk looks like Leborn james
From around 1770 to 1820 sales of British, Dutch and American controlled opium in China had increased by 22,000%!
Khun Sa's operation was actually quite small by comparison. He also had
to deal with competition for the market from other drugs sources; cocaine, designer cocktails and crack (later replaced by crystal meth).
Inspite of western rhetoric drug abuse is encouraged in western nations because it makes wealthy backers (where are those offshore trust funds going?) even wealthier.
Ok.. blah blah blAh.. your just stating facts we all know.. what’s your solution???
@@dmimz8593 legalise drugs
These Drug mafias Narco terrorists are now attacking Manipur India … killing thousands of innocent lives in 3rd May 2023…
@@dmimz8593of course many of us who are clued up know but 99% of the population believe that governments have zero involvement in drug importation and distribution and we must be protected from these drugs for our own good because of course….they only have our best interests at heart. FFS….the majority of the world’s populous still believes that we landed on the moon!!!
And on topic….why did the high grade and highly refined white heroin from this region get taken over by brown crude Afghan base heroin? Because it was a fresh marketing ploy pushed by global authorities as the “new safe heroin” knowing that smokable heroin would facilitate a whole new range of users who would have never in a million years considered IV drug use. I would also suggest that the golden triangle still continues to produces just much heroin as it always has but it will no longer be refined (#5) as it was before….Brown base heroin = more addicts = more government money and more destabilisation of society. Just what governments want!
Those poor kids. Look terrified and most sad. It's brutal
Holy fuck!!! I thought I had it bad when I went through detox from methadone in jail. It was hell. I couldn't imagine being in a frickin pit in the ground. That has to be the closest feeling to actually being in hell.
Jail...pit in the ground...same difference. Bottom line, kicking opiates is hell. Period. Haha!!
I hope you're doing better these days though...
Jail is the best place to get off it.In Syd Aust if you were not on Methadone when you was locked up you did it rock solid & you got nothing.They changed that abt 15-20yrs ago. Just abstain & you get back to normal within 2-3 mths.Sleep once every 3-4 days in the 1st 6 weeks then you good as gold.Dont even think of using in there or you be a candidate for aids or Hepatitis.Then you get out & as sure as night follows day you back amongst it.That monkey on your back grows into a gorilla.
Yeah, not much fun. At least withdrawal from h, or opium is only around a week, as opposed to the several weeks that methadone can take.
I've been to the golden triangle it's pretty cool. You can see Laos, Burma and Thailand from one point. I believe they're closing the Thai - Burma border to tackle the drug smuggling. It's all yaba now, not as much hezza
Benji'sBigBoyReviews that might be just a way to get rid of competition so only one man can control and run the trade
The Chinese built a big casino/resort over on the Lao side. The Thai/Burma border is impossible to close down. Go up to Mae Sai or Fang or Mae Hong Song and look around: really rugged "dragon's tooth" mountains everywhere.
this man lived the rest of his life facing zero penalty. yet we repetitively lock up users and low level dealers on a daily basis.
Ibogaine treatment is very effective, so I understand, when withdrawing from Heroin!
If a little bit traumatic.
Gotta have this guys number
"Heeyyy maaan, you got some... uuum... dragon plaaant?"
6:04 =Cannabis plant next to Soulja outside house😂 even heroin king pins still smoke weed
daniel gonzalez who doesn’t smoke weed with H... it goes so well together
Doesn’t look like any weed I’ve ever seen
That isn't weed dumb ass
daniel that is not cannabis & he or his men don't & aren't allowed to take any drugs .Did you see the pit ? end of story
That's terrible how he forces their addicts to withdrawal in a locked pit. That's inhumane, dehumanizing, and dangerous. Although withdrawal is rarely fatal it can be.
It also sends a message, and keeps people from using opium. Better to make an example of a few then having hundreds or thousands of addicts.
When they are in the pit they should be pissed upon aswell to teach the junkie scum a lesson
borla64 you’re just a really helpful cog in society yourself aren’t ya? Lol you dumb fucker just wait till you have a child or sibling or close friend that’s an addict and see how you feel then
you cant die from heroin withdrawals
So much easier to detox off real heroin not these chemicals people are using in the states. It’s all fentanyl and other chemicals used to cut it, it makes the detox so much harder with weird symptoms.
Great reporting,👍👍👍
It’s the ugly truth of this thing we call “Life”... Sometimes you have to do bad to do good for your people!
Absolutely 💯 most people aren't good or evil and things aren't black or white most people and situations are grey some lighter shades some darker shades more good or evil but nobody is just good or evil
@@NYCfrankie No, there is pure evil and saint like good, and everything in between.
The lady at 13;04 was hilarious. They took away all our chickens and food so we give them opium too 😁😂🤣
because they were scared. other people were beaten
Mhas' I suppose it dose sound strange to us but as well as their chickens & food they took away their men too
& did you see the children being trained as soldiers ? Well they came from the hill people also.Their lives are in danger.
Life is unbelievably difficult for the hill people they can't survive on growing anything else than opium.
You can go there & visit the hill people in Thailand as a tourist .
And if you ask them for some weed they'll tell you they can only sell you opium. ( Do not buy it though)
It's a big culture shock for us westerners .
And don't get me started on what is going on in the Red LLight districts.Sad is not the word.It's beyond sad !
She was referring to the Burmese military who came and stole everything including their men. She and her family then moved to the other side of the river and began supplying Khun Sa's people with opium. What else could they do to survive? This documentary is about people with lots of power and people with zero power.
Lol😅
99% of Khun Sa's solders are from forced induction?
That figure is both high and suspect, such a force would not be effective and your own life would constantly be in peril.
For all Khun Sa's flaws, it seems the hill people could have worse, I've heard him speak before, I believe he genuinely cares about his people.
Great Work.
Khun Sa Is On Different level then Pablo And El Chapo as far as he ran his empire. He lived Modestly wasnt into buying luxury cars, jewelry, Zoo, etc...he lived like a Modest Revolutionary Leader like Fidel or Che Gueverra Ho Chi Minh similar to them. Not Flashy at all Khun Sa was and in a way you have to respect that even tho if is considered a Billionaire. Could he have lived Lavishly, YES
Pablo & chapo are overrated asf. Roberto Suarez, El mayo, amando Fuentes, los Ochoa brothers ran it better then them
@@cripbk2147El mayo now in usa prison already
Somehow I get the feeling that the "Drug rehab pit" is not a voluntary treatment center..
Fucking brutal. Im telling you comeing down from that shit can be sucidal. In a fucking pit holy shitt ... Just sick as fuck.
Forced rehab just makes people resent you especially if you make them suffer by putting them in a pit. The time after getting clean is the highest risk time for overdoses because they have no tolerance. They will likely use as soon as they get out to spite you as well.
"The most unwanted wanted man of the world"
Where does the pharmacies get their Opioids from ? Lets hear that ,from Them .
Here we go again, marjiuana being a gateway drug when the real gateway drug is actually alcohol.
fr
there is no such thing as a gateway drug
it is merely a decision of the drug taker
But if you were to choose which drug out of Alcohol & pot is more likely to be a gateway to heroin , then it is marijuana with out a doubt.
Only because some pot dealers also sell Heroin , not because one innately leads to the other
To say alcohol is ever a gateway to heroin literally makes zero logical sense, and is silly.
so NO the real gateway drug is actually NOT alcohol.
Basically, the gateway drug is the easyest illegal drug to get. I say illegal because once you get in the habit of buying drugs off the black market, it's not such a big step to get a different one. But I met a guy who said that he tried heroin before he tried anything else. Because of where he lived, it was what was around, and he had never even heard of anything else until later. Once he heard of them, he used it, so in his case, heroin was the gateway drug.
A lot of young folks world wide start with solvents: glue, lighter fluid, gasoline, oven cleaner, liquid paper. It would be hard to ban all that stuff.
Basically, some people try drugs. Of those, some people, a minority, are inclined to become addicted to them. Of the latter group, they will tend to get hooked on whatever is around, including, yes, alcohol. So, the gateway drug theory has a grain of truth in it, trying one thing often leads to trying another. But it is flawed in the idea that getting rid of one drug will keep people from trying others.
Azulgo it was for me
I6t was for me, too. But if smack had ben the only thing around, I probably would have started with that. I knew folks who did.
American logic: So if Khun-sa has this many drugs, he should be a drug addict
no his not! That's why he proliferated from it!
😂😂😂😂
Edwin Aquino 77777
Gordon Ziegler He is to money
The Black monk at 20:45 is clearly from Chicago or New York. We need his background story!!!!!
"we can get cocaine from colombia and AKs from russia but none of us have a passport" eazy e.
Disco Stu
For £100 I can get you one 😉✌🏻
@Av63PNT0 Doesn't even make sense though? Why would he say that you complete helmet?
Mister Pfister Ayna Lee hook me up fool lol
That's some real talk
Very cool doc
That's a gorgeous pic all bricks in room dam
It would be gorgeous if was in my bedroom. But the fact it's going to either be burnt, or more than likely line some politicians pockets, makes it ugly af imho.
A drug kingpin with his own army, land and flag? That's fucking insane
thats true hhh
Too addicted to see this
I was gonna say that. Anyone kicking should avoid these videos. gotta watch what you watch in that condition. Great comment ....
I find it helps...just try and use it for good...overcome being bound by triggers, use them to strengthen
weak
I had never been exposed to Heroin, until rehab.
Think of the numbers of people involved in the drug trade and what would happen if the drugs suddenly dissapered. There would be millions of people out of work, the US imploys thousands of Police, prison guards, drug workers etc.
Yep. The War on Drugs supports a massive economic infrastructure. They don't want it to end.
UnorthdoxCleric I said that too. Don't forget the judges, lawyers, rehab centers.
UnorthdoxCleric - Why don't we "war" against pedophilia? Oh, thats why....
UnorthdoxCleric : yeah. like NZ after da 1995 word cup. all on prozac
Outcast Outdoors I agree they need to line them all up and let the firing squad empty clips on them
Great Documentary. Hidden gems of UA-cam. BTW 22:47 Stallone ?
"how much you want, Frank?"
Frank Lucas: "tell him I want 100k"
Dery ,memories don't leave like people do ,He is a visionary ,adventurer , and not wanting to Think ,Believe ,or Assume ,but to KNOW to be there and Do it , and he knew how to crunch the # s
Who? Frank mattrew is the boss
@@live2hustle495
American Gangster (2007)
Good movie 👍
You aint gotta worry bout that...
@@apraew20 show me the time stamp where a similar scene happens in this documentary
The Drug Lord JrNTR #Dragon 🐉🔥🌍
Having an addictive personality sucks...
Johnny K. bruh no joke
This shit is so funny lmfao
***** Much more complicated, let's just say it's a full blown addiction...
***** Still chasin' the dragon...I cannot stress enough how fucked up it is when you're intrinsically inclined to an addictive personality and ODC coupled together...it's fucking a nightmare...I made 72k last year and most of it went to, well you know...separated from the wife, daughter...just a fucking nightmare which I cannot get myself out of. The wife called yesterday actually, every time she does the first thing she asks is, "are you clean yet??!!!" She still holds out hope for us which is endearing...I would've wrote myself off years ago.
People who don't have an addictive personality don't get it...they just don't. I'm a Sagittarius as well, "triple doom" I call it, we're fucking gluttons...we take from life till' life has nothing left to give...I wish I was like a nun who's never known sin.
great work
Used literally pounds of his double 0 globe and Fish Eggs brand No.4 back in the early 80s onwards. Great gear but led to a lot of prison time and deaths of friends
I wonder if dope is even manufactured there anymore.
@@AFaceintheCrowd01yes. in australia, double 0 globe is easily the most common. though users have dropped significantly since the 2000s so production has scaled back an diverted toward methamphetamine production.
its only a matter of time before the heroin dries up and fentanyl takes its place, which will absolutely devastate this country.
i also work with former opium farmers from Myanmar who've sought out asylum here.
Is methadone or suboxone available in this area that if someone wants to quit heroin, he cam get help through opiod?
does anyone really believe this guy would stop making money off opium once he gained complete power?
nope
Love this. New knowledge .
Very sad for the child recruit....💔
Wow wish i could have a time travel machine 1994 ..look at all those 90s classics
22:24 Sylvester Stallone at a rehabilitation center .......That should be the breaking news :p
Jesh Paul hahaha yeah the Australian Stallone LOL 😂
yes there was a british and a chinese in the rehab scene from 'Ghanastan, too. theyre foremost users and exporters, since 1875
Experience is the best teacher and I have far too much 1st hand experience when it comes to those matters.
Physical withdrawls can and probably will be the worst pain you have felt or at least darn close. Does not make them impossible to go through.
22:24 even Sylvester Stallone is there lol 😆😆
Great documentary
You know that a car can run out of fuel, you also know a human can run out of life. And even though you (as a casual drug user) know much about drugs, you also know that you can die of a car accident.
This is using footage from a 3 part documentary called the Heroin wars shot over a period of thirty years if you want to understand the hypocrisy of the war on drugs I highly recommend finding this documentary
she got that " Raw " !!
Truth is the truth, he spoke this truth......
So that was Bangkok looked like when I'm barely a year old...
He surrendered to the government 1996, and died of a heart attack in 2007. He was not the only Chinese warlord in the Shan State. Other warlords are still controlling massive areas, but the production of opium had been generally ceased.
No it hasn't
Flaming Dragon
97 cobra simple Jack belongs to us now, 50 million!
lol!!
Say it,SAY IT........MORE STUPID!
This video is definitely pre Afghanistan with their 6500 metric tons a year flowing directly through the CIA's pipeline!
it's fWaming
So I did a little research and he passed away about 10 years ago and about 2 years after this was made, I believe he had to relinquish his empire, but was able to live out his life through investments
Yes, it's true that no country should be blackmailed into financing some warlord's operation. Are you alluding to legalization/decriminalization when you say different ways of handling it?
If so, you and I are absolutely in agreement.
I was merely stating that if people continue to be deluded into billions of dollars "warring" against drugs and thinking they will ever be eliminated, simply buying all this dude's heroin for a fraction of the cost would be more effective than current measures.
cculb1 I agree with you on this,this is the most honest and sensible comment I’ve read on this and you wrote this years ago,and there’s no change for the better as the production has increased globally the world seems to be flooded with heroin I fear for the future
I would like to know more about Khun Sa.
Look for a book "dope inc" if i rememeber correctly. it goes back to how the sassoons/rothchilds etc & UK got most their wealth. Drugs will NEVER be abolished
2:35 man's wearing a sarong like he's on a beach but a polo shirt under a jumper like he's at an office job 😆
You just know my man had a huge network of tunnels to go along with that compound !!
NTR + NEEL🌊🔥
Khun Sa seems so nice, I dont care if he does drugs, I'd love to hang out with him on my next trip to Bangkok for oriental masadge
he is long dead
Shan State rocks! I'm backpacking there soon 😀😀😀☺☺☺😐😐😐
methadone saved my life aswell, been on the program for about 6 years now and i have been 100% clean since i got on the program. i have gone back to school studying and am now living a normal life. im not saying only methadone is the answer becuase you have to be motivated to quit also.
hydrocloridum u just switch drugs ! Same old dealer for sure
hydrocloridum just spent last 3days kicking. Using suboxon now. Government dope.
@@69AARVIPER What does it matter? He/She is doing great and living a happier life. Would you be saying anything if the person was taking heart medication? Are you against Tylenol for headaches? Coffee in the morning? I have chronic pain. Opioids made life tolerable, but Big Brother took those away from me, telling me they were addictive and deadly. It took about a weeks worth of pain before seeking out heroin. Then Suboxone to get off of heroin. Suboxone was as, if not harder to get off of than heroin. I heard that Methadone withdrawals are the worst of the 3.
In the 1972 Consumer Union Report, it pointed out that, when street doses of heroin were far purer than they are today (China Cat and black-tar heroin scares notwithstanding), drug overdoses were practically unknown. It also noted that heroin overdoses began to be reported in New York City after World War II.
Public officials can generally say any bad thing they want about illegal drugs. And they feel no doubt that labeling deaths as overdoses should scare most young people away from drugs. If it is not pure drugs that kill, but impure drugs and the mixture of drugs, then the myth of the heroin overdose can be dangerous. If users had a guaranteed pure supply of heroin which they relied on, there would be little more likelihood of toxic doses than occur with narcotics administered in a hospital.
Me too from France peace
this is 20yrs ago,things have changed a lot.
Owww damn doing a cluck in that hole... I've done 3 cold Turkey withdrawals and I don't think that would help
Great show
Very informative. Why don't democratic countries like Canada, USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, etc., grow their own opium for processing into morphine and synthetic drugs for domestic medicinal consumption? Will the opium flower/poppy plant not grow in those countries? I read somewhere where that England had an opium farm in country licensed by the government to a private farming operation for consumption by the British through its regulated pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and physicians.
domestic farmers would be too greedy and too their employees meaning very high price for their crop. its the western thing to outsource just about anything for dirt cheap
five days of heroin withdrawal in a pit! yikes! that is a living hell!
2:27 he is in lunghi..😂😂
Lunghi is a old Indian air cooling pants🤣🤣
Also worn in Burma. Bertil Lintner's wife is Shan. He spent a lot of time in Burma, reporting for The Far Eastern Economic Review, one of the really great news magazines. They were headquartered in Bangkok until Premier Thaksin Shinawatra made life miserable for them. The Shinawatras were a gangster political family that controlled Chiang Mai. They would have made a lot of money dealing directly or indirectly with Khun Sa.
i wonder if any of those child soldiers are still alive today. They would be about my age. Imagine being born into that. :(:(
And yet there is still a huge legal market for opiates for medicinal uses.
1:30...the song is called "Like a Payer" by Madonna.
marijuana is the safest smokable thing on this planet
seventeen thirty-eight hookah flavour.
+moab wereldwijd that's worse than cigarettes
or salvia
+Irish lad L
seventeen thirty-eight hookah flavour can be without tabacco
This is pretty potent