Word: lashio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predominantly Protestant Karens and the hill-dwelling, opium-smoking Shans. While the fighting has nowhere come close to the proportions of the Vietnamese war, any week's reading of Burmese newspapers makes the land seem less than idyllic. Recent examples: "Rebels" have damaged the railway between Mandalay and Lashio. Five armed rebels "who seemed to be Communists" carried off a village chief and shot him. A band of police escorting seven provision-laden elephants was ambushed only seventy miles from Rangoon...