Wired News on June 27, 1995 Attn: Burma Newsreaders Re: Wired News on June 27, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------ Burmese Monk in Thailand Sought for Killing BANGKOK, June 27 (Reuter) - Police were searching for a Buddhist monk from Burma whom they say stabbed a Thai woman to death on Tuesday and wounded six other people during a robbery at a shelter for illegal immigrants from Burma. Four of the wounded people were fellow Burmese living in the same house in a Bangkok suburb, police said. Police alleged that the monk drugged the victims with the intention of robbing them before the attack took place. The monk later fled the scene with some stolen goods, they said. REUTER ******************** Burma Says Heroin Output Down in Northeast RANGOON, Burma (Reuter) - Heroin production in northeastern Burma has been reduced significantly since opium warlord Khun Sa's army was forced out of strategic strongholds, official Burmese media reported Tuesday. Lt-Gen. Maung Thint, vice-chairman of the central committee for drug-abuse control, said in a speech that the quantity of heroin manufactured in the region had dropped since Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army was forced back following a two-month offensive that ended in mid-May. ``Now emphasis is put on the annihilation of Khun Sa's drug-trafficking terrorists,'' official media reported him as saying. ``Our forces succeeded in cleaning up some important strongholds of Khun Sa and as a result about one third of their production capacity was vanquished.'' Domestic consumption and trafficking of drugs is now under control, Maung Thint said. Khun Sa is under indictment in the United States on drug trafficking charges and has been identified by international narcotics officials as one of the world's drug ``kingpins.'' Separately, officials met to discuss the eradication of poppy plantations in the Wa region of Shan state, where Khun Sa is also based. Official media reported that Japanese and U.S. embassy officials praised efforts by the ethnic minority Wa to eradicate poppy growing. REUTER **************