The Heroin Wars - Season 1 Episode 1
Lo Hsing-Han, Khun Sa and the beginning of the war on drugs. Trafficking initially funded rebellion against the anti-democratic Burmese Army dictatorship. As guerilla armies fought to control the huge mule convoys transporting opium to the outside world, the U.S. intervened to attack the convoys, then arrested the first "King of Opium" after inviting him to negotiate.
- genus: Documentary
- Studio: Channel 4
- keyword: war on drugs, opium, drug trade, drugs, narcotics
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