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...latent menace, what happened at that army camp on the Thai-Malaysian border is mundanely commonplace. In Thailand and Cambodia scores of illicit arms exchanges happen every day, some of them for as little as one or two pistols, others for crates holding several thousand Chinese-manufactured AK-47s, still encased in a thick layer of protective green grease. The two countries are the spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region...
...trafficking feeds the tide of violence that blights the region, threatens democracy and development, and destroys lives. But despite all that, there are few signs that it will be stopped, or even slowed. It's too lucrative for too many people. Take Thailand, for example. "After the collapse of military dictatorship in 1973," says Sungsidh Pirayarangsan, a professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and a specialist on the issue, "local godfathers, drug traffickers, traders of war weapons and others involved in illegal trade laundered themselves through the election process. Today, the contraband arms trade is able to survive because...
...after disagreeing with its plans to wage a violent campaign to install an Islamic government in Malaysia. Short, muscular and terrified of arrest, Abdul Rahman smokes constantly as he describes how he was recruited through a martial arts group and later sent for six months' paramilitary training in Thailand. "There were 45 in my group alone, and there were many, many groups sent for training," he relates. "So if the police say there are 200 more KMM members out there I think they must mean only the leaders." Rahman advises that the world take the terrorists of Southeast Asia seriously...
...into a dispute with a group of drunken Thai villagers and opened fire. The slaying of the six Thais was the death knell for God's Army. The Thai public demanded retribution. A combined force of soldiers, police and border-patrol units cut off the rebels' supply routes to Thailand, hoping to starve them out. Though the guerrillas managed to slip through the net, hunting deer and monkeys for food, the mood among them had changed. A Burmese army unit was less than three miles away, suggesting that the government in Rangoon might be planning to hit the Karen hard...
...rebels Luther and Johnny Htoo, 13, surrender in Thailand...