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1826 – A Frenchman named G E Limouzin, who moved to Burma, just after British annexation of lower Burma in 1826. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1852 – The British are in lower Burma, importing opium from India and selling it through a monopoly. PBS Frontline.

1885 – British colonial Burma, Mandalay in 1885 was declared part of the British empire. The last Burmese monarch, King Thibaw, reigned in Mandalay. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1886 – The British in Burma's northeast Shan state. Production and smuggling of opium Burma. British monopoly on the opium trade.PBS Frontline.

1 Jan 1886 – Randolph Churchill, secretary of state for India annexed Burma. The Rothschilds and Burma's ruby mines. (Inside history. Gerry Docherty. Jim Macgregor (c)2013 UK).

1920s – By the time George Orwell arrived in Burma in the early 1920s. The Delta was leading Burmese exports of over 3 million tons of rice. Half the worlds supply. Burma 2004 exports only 20,000 tons of rice. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1920s – 90 British officers and 13,000 Burmese police oversaw the land of 13 million people. Corruption was rampant among magistrates, and criminals were seldom convicted. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1920s – George Orwell lived in Burma in the 1920s, as an officer in the imperial police force of the British empire. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1922 – George Orwell joined the Indian imperial police force in Burma. (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK).

1935 – George Orwell Burmese days. Gollance London UK.

1941 – Air America pilots in Rangoon. They were drunk and ripped the sarongs off women in the streets. The were arrested for wearing Texas boots into the pagoda there. Mercenary Americans heading for China. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

1943 – Lionel White, Air Force transports into Burma. He and his crew were the only Allied military presence there? (NZ Memories Dec Jan 2012 2013 p65).

1 Oct 1944 – Burma pamphlets. Buddhism in Burma. (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK).

1945-47 – Burma got independence from the British, at the end of World War Two. Opium was cutlivated and transported from the Shan states. PBS Frontline.

Feb 1945 – An RAF liberator bomber was shot down in southern Burma near Pypon. Six crew bailed out and were picked up by the Japanese Kempeitai and taken to Myanaung and tortured. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

March 1946 – The Japanese Kempeitai were accused of killing 637 civilians. They were in a dock at Rangoon Burma. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1947 – Broadlands archives, university of Southampton UK has 250,000 papers and 50,000 photos of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1947. (Practical family history Feb 2010 p7).

1947-50s – Burma, British Jan 1948 exit of a colony. General Aung San military leader, father of Aung San Suu Kyi, was assassinated in July 1947. In the early 1950s M15 had a post in Rangoon Burma run by M15 and SIS. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

19 July 1947 – Burmese leader Aung San was assassinated along with 8 others. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

19 July 1947 – Pm of hew shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non cabinet members were assassinated by armed paramilitaries. (HistoryOrb.com)

1948 – Aung San was assassinated months before independence from the UK in 1948. His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi was two years old. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1948 – Burma became independent from the UK. A military dictator sealed off the country to Socialism. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1949 – Burmese days. George Orwell.

1951 – Paul Helliwell and BCCI. Castle bank was set up and controlled by Paul Heliwell. In 1951 he set up Sea Supply corp, which was a CIA front for ten years. Sea supply was used to supply the KMT in Burma and the Thai police opium trafficking. (Global research. Peter Date Scott 6 Sept 2008).

1951-59 – April 1951 opium sent south to Thailand from Burma by mule train or aircraft C-47s to Thailand ot Taiwan. Opium in Thailand General Phao KMT supply shipments. Aug 1952. KMT Burma 1952 stateless army in Burma. Thai police and Gen Phao. CIA support for the KMT in Burma 7,000 people were flown to Taiwan. Leaving 6,000 troops in Burma. KMT opium. May 1959 three morphine base refineries and an airstrip were found. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

1952 – In Burma the CIA gave support to the Chinese warlord General Li Mi, from Yuman province, KMT loyal to Chiang Kai Shek. Returning to Burma at the end if the Chinese civil war. Shan states in northern Burma, Li Mi kingdom. 1952 with 10,000 troops, northern Burma, opium and smuggling. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Nov 1953 – William Sebald was a senior Korean service officer at the US embassy Rangoon Burma in the early 1950s. KMT in Burma Nov 1953. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

31 July 1956 – The Deseret news. Burma plays down China troop reports. Rangoon UP. Chinese troops and border with Burma.

1961 – Burma and the KMT 1960. 26 Jan 1961 the CIA supplied military aid diverted to Burma from Taiwan. Free China relief association. CAT airlift and 6,000 troops remained in Burma. The KMT went to Laos, hired by the CIA for a secret war. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

1962 – Abid is Arabic for slaves. A succession of military regimes ruled Burma since Ne Win seized power in a coup in 1962. (This immoral trade. C Cox, J Marks. ©2006 UK).

1962-2002 – Burma’s experiment with Socialism began in 1962, when the leader of the army Ne Win seized power. He set up a revolutionary council. Ne Win died in December 2002 aged 91 in his villa in Rangoon. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

1965-70 – US in Vietnam, heroin smuggling into the US. CIA Air America to take raw opium from Burma and Laos. Opium through to Marceilles France by Corsican mafia shipped to the US via the French connection. There were about 750,000 heroin addicts in the US. PBS Frontline.

1970 – Report of US bureau of narcotics. Burma, Laos and Thailand was the source of more than half of the world supply of opium.

1972 – Heroin exports from the Golden triangle Khun Sa as the source of the raw opium, the drug trade. PBS Frontline.

1973 – Khun Sa was jailed in 1969 released in 1973, after the kidnapping of two Soviet doctors at a hospital in Taunggyi. He retuned to the Thai border. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black. ©2009 Thailand).

8 July 1975 – An earthquake struck Pagan (Bagan) and destroyed many monuments in Burma. (Timeline internet).

1980s – Women are seen as possessions to be disposed of. Manipulated and controled. Refugee camps on the Thai Burma border where two million people migrated from Burma in the early 1980s. Sex slaves. (Sex slaves. Louise Brown ©2000 UK).

Jan 1982 – Khun Sa moved from Thailand to Burma. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

Late 1980s – A $2 million reward US was offered for Khun Sa’s capture. (31 Oct 2007 Vancouver Sun Canada).

1987 – Mary Anne Stanislaw. Kalagas, the wall hangings of south east Asia. Ainslei California ISBN 0-9618-4450-7.

1988 – Opium production in Burma SCORC Burma. PBS Frontline.

1988-1990 – In 1988 anti-government uprising and troops were sent to kill thousands of people in 1990. In 2007 there were more protests in Burma. Black market, fake passports, girls and boys for adoption. Trafficking and sex, identified as a business run by the state and military, sex slaves, kidnapped hundreds of girls. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1989 – Drugs the US and Khun Sa by Francis W Belanger Thailand published Worldcat database.

1989-2004 – High ranking generals and drug lords from Burma’s we state were buying up land and houses in Myanma. The heroin that paid for their retirements. After Afghanistan Burma is the worlds largest producer of heroin. Much of the opium used in heroin production is grown in Wa state northeast mountains. The business is … the United Wa state army described by the US state dept as the world most heavily armed drug traffickers. The government in Burma benefits from the illegal trade in drugs 1989. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

Feb 1989 – Khan Sa. Burma's opium warlord and heroin manufacturer. Was at his HQ at Mongmai near the Thai border.

1990 – An official in the National bank, protested against the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, from the National League for Democracy, which won the election in 1990. (You cant read this book. Nick Cohen ©2012 UK).

1990-91 – General Khun Sa, a warlord in Burma who controlled 80% of the regions opium trade. In 1990 he was indicted in the US on federal drug charges, but remained a fugitive. In mid 1991 he had deposited about $300 million in BCCI. The accounts were fed from Taiwan and Hong Kong.

1991 – Sex trafficking in Burma and Thailand. Sex ezine slavery Trafficking of Burmese women girls in brothels in Thailand (Internet).

1992 – Khun Sa his own story and his thoughts. Published in Thailand. Worldcat database.

1995 – The proceeds of the heroin trade were invested in casinos, hotels, bars and a drug eradication museum, sex slavery from Russia and Ukraine. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black. ©2009 Thailand).

Jan 1996 – 27 Oct 2007 – Khun Sa was captured by Burmese troops. He died in Rangoon. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

9 Aug 1998 – Burmese officials seized over 341 kg of opium in Kachin. BBC London. Arrested Thein Tun alias Aik Toe aged 31.

20 April 1999 – Burma seized raw opium in Kunlong township. BBC London.

1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure. Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese embassy in Bangkok Thailand taking 89 people hostage including 1 US citizen.

2001 – Orphans tear. History. One of Asia’s poorest counties.

Nov 2001 – Two Pakistani nuclear scientists under investigation by the US. Links to Al Qaeda arrived in Burma in early November 2001.

15 Nov 2001 – Burmese police raid a refinery in Kokang Shan State. BBC London. Opium refinery in Lamkkai a town in Kokang.

2002 – License to rape. The rape and killing of more than 600 women and girls, some as young as 4 by the Burmese military. Rape as a weapon of war. Same as the Japanese military did to the “comfort women” during World War Two. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2002 – The Thailand based Shan human rights foundation filed a report, saying the Myanmar government military force, raped at least 625 girls and women in Shan states from 1996-2001 (Timeline internet).

March 2002 – Rahul Bedi. Nuclear scientists in Myanmar. Janes intel review vol 14 no 3.

4 April 2002 – Burmese police seized 290kg of raw opium. BBC London.

8 May 2002 – Burmese police seized 156.16kg of raw opium. BBC London.

9 May 2002 – Police Burma heroin. Layla Tucak. The Australian Canberra ACT.

29 May 2002 – Burma says Thai police, syndicates for terrorist groups. BBC. Drug and human trafficking.

24 Dec 2002 – Burma, Thai allegations of soldiers involvement in drug production. BBC.

8 March 2003 – Burmese police seized 31kgs of raw opium. BBC London.

5 May 2003 – Burmese military seize raw opium, arms and ammunition in north Shan State. BBC London. Tonai Mawhtaik area, raw opium.

18 June 2003 – Burmese radio reports heroin opium in Shan State. BBC London. 10.7kg of raw opium seized.

2004 – Under British rule Christian missionaries were able to preach in Burma. In 2004 there were 2.2 million Christians 5% of the population.^In 2004 missionary Christians were forbidden from entering Burma. (Secret histories Burma. ©2004 UK Emma Larkin).

2004 – Secret histories Burma. Emma Larkin (c)2004 UK. John Murray publishers ISBN 0-7195-5695-3.

2004 – Burma, the forgotten war. Jon Latimer.

3 Jan 2004 – Burmese officials seized 2.816kg of opium. BBC London.

23 Jan 2004 – Burmese opium, heroin, arrested in Shan State. BBC London.

19 May 2004 – A cyclone swept through western Myanmar. More than 140 people were dead or missing about 18,000 people were homeless. (AP 28 May 2004).

2005 – A torture of prisoners called Chingkuang tradak or stork's knees, widely used in Burma in 2005. Iron shackles around ankles. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

19 July 2005 – Burma arrests Malaysian in meth seizure. BBC. Arrest of Mr Chan.

29 Nov 2006 – Red cross closing field offices in Myanmar. Up to 1,000 political prisoners being held. (Wed 29 Nov 2006 1.15am 9645khz VOA).

12 Feb 2007 – A report issued by a human rights group accused Myanmar’s military of killing, raping and torturing ethnic Karen women over the past 25 years. (AP 12 Feb 2007).

5 May 2007 – Burma, an anti insurgent with opium and counterfeit notes was arrested. BBC London. Raw opium and counterfeit notes.

24 May 2007 – Burma seized raw opium in Northern Shan State. BBC London.

July 2007 – The Irrawaddy. Burma plays nuclear card, 10 megawatt nuclear reactor atomic energy agency Rosaton by Aung Zaw.

12 Oct 2007 – UN body reports two fold increase in opium production in Burma and Laos. BBC London. A resurgence of opium production in the Golden Triangle.

31 Oct 2007 – Warlords death evokes CIAs golden days in the heroin trade. Death of Burmese warlord Khun Sa. The Vancouver sun Canada.

May 2008 – Cyclone Nargis devastated large parts of Burma, killing about 130,000 people, millions of people were affected. (Timeline internet).

3 May 2008 – A tropical cyclone slammed into Myanmar city of Yangon. About 138,000 people died or went missing. A deadly storm. (AP 4 May 2008).

4 Feb 2009 – The Advertiser Adelaide. Rising prices for opium in south east Asia. Burma is the worlds second biggest producer of opium.

2010 – In the Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand, rich families made their fortunes from sex slavery, monopolies in industries. They have never been held accountable. Thousands of women, sex slaves for the military in Burma, China, Japan, Philippines and the Balkans etc. Sex violence and military training. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Sex slave camps in Burma. Organized crime groups who traffick in human beings, sex trafficking. Kidnapping children to be sold in brothels. Opium production and heroin. Burma produces 80% of the heroin in Asia. Child slaves. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

18 Oct 2010 – Drug trafficking in Burma. Dylan Walch. Sydney Morning Herald.

20 Oct 2010 – UN drugs chief warms Burma, opium production is rising. BBC London. Dan Withers. Opium production increasing.

2011 – The hunt for Khun Sa, drug lord of the golden triangle. Ron Felber Waterville OR Trine day Worldcat database.

24 March 2011 – 6.8 earthquake. 73 people were killed and 111 people were injured. Timeline of earthquakes.

11 Nov 2012 – 6.8 earthquake. 12 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 April 2013 – Mass graves, children hacked to death. Phuket Wan. Human rights watch Burma.

22 April 2013 – Burma ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas, Muslims. HRW.org Buried in mass graves 28, children hacked to death.

23 June 2014 – Fall in Myanmar drug seizures, causes concern, rather than relief. Michael Peel. FT.com

21 Sept 2014 – 7 people were dead 3 people were missing in Burmese flash floods. Democratic voice of Burma Mandalay and Sagaing.

7 Nov 2014 – Myanmar government, emails in Rohingya human trafficking. Int Business Times UK. UN says persecution of minority Rohingya.

7 Nov 2014 – Burma’s state security forces profit from trafficking in Rohingya Muslims. Kate Holal. The Guardian UK.

11 Nov 2014 – Burma’s government are involved in human trafficking, says human rights group. Karen now. Fortify rights. Burma’s security forces are part of an international crime ring.

21 Nov 2014 – What happened to Burma’s missing 9 million people? Counterpunch. Guy Horton. The Ecologist.

22 Jan 2015 – US calls for Myanmar to investigate the killing of two Kachin women. NZ Herald. Washington AP. The women were raped and murdered by government forces.

15 March 2015 – 34 people are dead after a ferry capsized off Myanmar. CNN.

15 May 2015 – Rohingya stranded adrift at sea. NPR. New York Times.

15 May 2015 – Boats, hundreds of migrants from Myanmar, go further out to sea. New York Times. Wooden fishing boats.

15 May 2015 – Obama authorises sanctions on Myanmar. Stars and stripes.

16 May 2015 – Why thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar only to be stranded at sea. PBS news. Since Nov 2014 20,000 to 25,000 people have fled persecution in Myanmar and poverty in Bangladesh.Thousands are currently stranded at sea. Having been turned away from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

18 May 2015 – BBC UK. Indonesia's Aceh province. Influx of migrants from Myanmar/Burma and Bangladesh.

18 May 2015 – Brokers tricking Rohingya children onto trafficking boats. Bradenton Herald.

18 May 2015 – Desperate killings at sea. Rohingya fleeing Myanmar/Burma. Stuff.co.nz. Boats, little food for women and children.

18 May 2015 – Reuters. Pressure mounts on Myanmar. Asian boat people.

18 May 2015 – Myanmar needs ASEAN and UN help to fix Rohingya crisis. Bangkok Post Thailand.

18 May 2015 – Thai palace firm on turning away boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh. Inquirer.net. 6,000 Bangladeshi and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar adrift in boats in Southeast Asian seas. Abandoned by smugglers.

18 May 2015 – Refugees killed in fight for food. Radio NZ. The 700 rescued migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh are being processed by Indonesia on the island of.

26 May 2015 – More than 3,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar landed in Indonesia and Malaysia. Nightmares at sea. New York Times.

2 June 2015 – US will take Rohingya migrants. Bangkok Post.

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