Mong Ko
Mong Ko (Mān Kang)
Monekoe | |
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Town | |
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| 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 | 1,480 ft (450 m) |
| Population | |
• Town | 24,565 |
| • Urban | 8,847 |
| • Rural | 15,718 |
| Time zone | UTC+6:30 (MMT) |
Mong Ko, Möng Ko, Monekoe, Mān Kang or Man Kan, also known as Man Guo[3] and as Panglong[4] is a town in Mu Se Township, Mu Se District, northern Shan State.
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'.[5]
Geography
Monekoe lies by the border with China, 25 km east of Pang Hseng (Kyu Koke).[6] There is a border checkpoint in the town.[7]
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.[8] For 20 years Pheung controlled Kokang as a member of the Communist Party of Burma.[9] In 1989, however, the CPB split up[9] and Pheung established his own army, the National Democratic Alliance Army,[10] with which he mutinied and captured Mong Ko town.[11] 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.[10][12]
Further reading
References
- ^ GoogleEarth
- ^ The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census Highlights of the Main Results Census Report Volume 2 – A. Department of Population Ministry of Immigration and Population. 2015. p. 64.
- ^ Shelby Tucker, Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma. p. 27
- ^ "Panglong". Mapcarta. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ^ Peter John Perry, Myanmar (Burma) Since 1962: The Failure of Development. p. 152
- ^ Möng Ko: Burma
- ^ Restricted Area in Myanmar (Burma)
- ^ Smith, Martin (1991). Burma – Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. London and New Jersey: Zed Books.
- ^ a b Lintner, Bertil; Chiang Mai (28 June 1990). "A fix in the making" (PDF). Far Eastern Economic Review. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
- ^ a b 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.