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From kunming to nansan ports, from the kokang to wa, d.c., from panghsang again into the heart of the golden triangle - tachilek. The entire drive travel at 3000 km, unusual scenery along the way we met a lot of life, meet some unforgettable things more.
A morning in the autumn in September, we are made up of fourteen suv public ban du propaganda team has set up a file in the lincang city zhenkang county south umbrella myanmar port waiting for exit. The center of the front is a bridge, for the sino-burmese border, this is China, there is the first, dc - the kokang shan state in Burma. Look to the past, the Burmese military is already set up to welcome our formation.
The army "to welcome" the reason is simple, the recent instability across northern Burma, for reasons of security and foreign, the Burmese government as we coordinate the north myanmar area in the departments of the government and non-governmental forces, ask them to try to provide convenience for our visit and the need to protect. Despite the army to "by", but if you have individual mentality still it didn't come back. The story across borders, us into Burma gate that moment! And we also as if through the door into the scene.
Nine year October has been the Burmese poppy seeds, sesame seeds are smaller than only gray weed seeds in the soil and search, cover formed again, don't have to again before the fruit is mature management, so the local poppy also referred to as "lazy crops". In February, when ma poppy flowers red, drop of blood, such as sun quartermaster exotic flowers full mountain air. Poppy flowering only three days, then the result. Want to use a special cut open in harvest fruit, collect outflow of ivory grout, stay white pulp after solidification will become a black or brown, this is opium. In April, the golden triangle surrounding around the opium trade has started. Tobacco farmers are with selling opium money in exchange for salt, cloth and other daily necessities, in their ideas, opium is not du is tasted, but the medicine, or the survival of the crops.
Jolted along the rugged country road, carrying large mass of a remote smoke rushed into the stockade. Stockade in very cold and cheerless, except a few lazy villagers from the street, is a few we barking dog kept on. I walked out of the car and asked a local: "100 years of poppy years, du ban not difficult?" Which village, he told me: "if someone still dare to poppy, threw the village head into a two meters deep, only one person standing pit, let him die. If 15 days later, he was still alive, she pulled free." This is a small group of spontaneous formation of the punishment, are effective, du ban for three years, in the kokang region only one village head be punished.