A NOTORIOUS Burmese drugs runner and five members of his gang have pleaded guilty in a Chinese court to murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River.
A NOTORIOUS Burmese drugs runner and five members of his gang have pleaded guilty in a Chinese court to murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River.
The six suspects in the dock during the trial, with leader Naw Kham on the far right of the front row
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Media investigation points to discrepancies in a high-profile case that has gripped China By Michael Martin in Beijing and Helen McArdle
Naw Kham, an ethnic Shan warlord, is widely believed to run much of the smuggling and narcotics business in the so-called Golden Triangle region, where the borders of Laos, Burma and Thailand meet.
He was detained in April in Laos and extradited in May to China as chief suspect in the killings last year of Chinese boat crews in the area.
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