Mong Ko
| Mong Ko (Mān Kang) | |
|---|---|
| Town | |
  Mong Ko (Mān Kang) | |
| Coordinates: 24°6′1″N 98°18′50″E / 24.10028°N 98.31389°E | |
| Country |
 Burma |
| State | Shan State |
| District | Mu Se District |
| Township | Mu Se Township |
| Elevation[1] | 1,480 ft (450 m) |
| Time zone | MMT (UTC+6:30) |
Mong Ko, Möng Ko, Monekoe, Mān Kang or Man Kan, also known as Man Guo,[2] is a village in Mu Se Township, Mu Se District, northern Shan State. It lies by the border of China.[3]
Like many places in that hapless region, Mong Ko has been a drug-producing and trading point where 'walking down the main road one can smell the chemicals wafting from the houses'.[4]
History
The Communist Party of Burma (CPB) entered Shan State on New Year Day 1968, captured Mong Ko, and established the first war zone ‘303’ of the CPB North-East Command (NEC). This was quickly followed by ‘404’ in Kokang substate winning over the local warlord Pheung Kya-shin.[5] For 20 years Pheung controlled Kokang as a member of the Communist Party of Burma.[6] In 1989, however, the CPB split up[6] and Pheung established his own army, the National Democratic Alliance Army,[7] with which he mutinied and captured Mong Ko town.[8] After this he signed a cease-fire with the military junta, which allowed the Kokang army to retain their weapons, and established an autonomous Kokang region as the "First Special Region" of Myanmar.[7][9]
References
- ↑ GoogleEarth
- ↑ Shelby Tucker, Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma. p. 27
- ↑ Möng Ko: Burma
- ↑ Peter John Perry, Myanmar (Burma) Since 1962: The Failure of Development. p. 152
- ↑ Smith, Martin (1991). Burma – Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London and New Jersey: Zed Books.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lintner, Bertil; Chiang Mai (28 June 1990). "A fix in the making". Far Eastern Economic Review. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 果敢乱局当前 传“果敢王”已逃离 (in Chinese). 南国都市报 (Southern Metropolitan). 29 August 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
- ↑ Tucker, Shelby (2001). Burma: The curse of independence. Pluto Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-7453-1541-6.
- ↑ "Tense situation in N. Myanmar's Shan state prevails". Xinhua. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
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