Lord of drug lords: One life as lesson for US drug policy

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 301-331

  McCoy, Alfred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 27144449740     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008371305403     Document Type: Article

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1. New York Times, 16 March 1990;
2. Christopher R. Cox, Chasing the Dragon: Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle (New York: Henry Holt, 1996), pp. 47-50.
3. US State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics Matters, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 1990 (Washington, DC: US State Department, 1990), pp. 271-279, 286;
4. New York Times, 11 February 1990.
5. New York Times, 20 May 1997, 22 May 1997, 9 June 1997;
6. Eric Konisberg, "A Model Addiction," Allure, July 1996, pp. 90-95.
7. New York Times, 17 June 1996, 23 January 1998, 11 April 1998, 4 May 1998, 11 May 1998, 9 June 1998.
8. US General Accounting Office, Drug Control: U.S. Heroin Program Encounters Many Obstacles in Southeast Asia (Washington, DC: US General Accounting Office, March 1996), pp. 2-7.
9. US Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control (CCINC), World Opium Survey 1972 (Washington, DC: CCINC, 1972), pp. 11, A38-39;
10. US Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Matters, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, March 1997 (Washington, DC: US State Department, 1997), pp. 24-25.
11. New York Times, 26 June 1997.
12. New York Times, 5 February 1996, 29 April 1996, 25 November 1996, 12 November 1997, 2 June 1998.
13. New York Times, 14 November 1997, 9 June 1998, 11 June 1998.
14. Washington Times, 5 January 1996;
15. New York Times, 2 January 1996, 6 January 1996.
16. Apart from the information he provided in the interview below, this brief biography of Khun Sa is compiled from Bertil Lintner, "Lord of the Golden Triangle," Caravan 1, no. 4 (May 1994);
17. Khun Sa: His Own Story and Thoughts (no publication data), pp. 4349;
18. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991), pp. 423-435;
19. Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, The Shan of Burma: Memoirs of a Shan Exile (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1987), pp. 18-27, 189-190;
20. Chao-Tzang Yawnghwe, "Shan Opium Politics: The Khun Sa Factor," Burma Debate 2, no. 1 (February-March 1995), pp. 22-26.
21. Shan State National Congress, Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee, Historical Facts about the Shan State (Condensed and Revised Edition) (1994), pp. 4-6, appendix 6, 7;
22. Frank N. Trager, Burma: From Kingdom to Republic: A Historical and Political Analysis (London: Pall Mall Press, 1966), pp. 82-83.
23. Martin Smith, Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity (London: Zed Books, 1991), pp. 29-30, 349-350.