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Mong Ko

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Country
  
Burma

District
  
Mu Se District

Time zone
  
MMT (UTC+6:30)

State
  
Shan State

Township
  
Mu Se Township

Elevation
  
450 m

Mong Ko

Weather
  
27°C, Wind W at 11 km/h, 32% Humidity

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Mong Ko, Möng Ko, Monekoe, Mān Kang or Man Kan, also known as Man Guo and as Panglong is a village in Mu Se Township, Mu Se District, northern Shan State.

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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'.

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Geography

Monekoe lies by the border with China, 25 km east of Pang Hseng (Kyu Koke). There is a border checkpoint in the town.

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. For 20 years Pheung controlled Kokang as a member of the Communist Party of Burma. In 1989, however, the CPB split up and Pheung established his own army, the National Democratic Alliance Army, with which he mutinied and captured Mong Ko town. 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.

References

Mong Ko Wikipedia