Ban Rak Thai Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in Thailand
About Ban Rak Thai
The Chinese influence in this region dates to the civil war in China that raged until the communists took power in 1949. Remnants of the KMT army fled to Burma, where the staged forays into China to retake lost territory. In the early-1960s, China retaliated by invading the Shan State of Burma where the KMT were located. Mauled by the People's Liberation Army, the KMT fled across the border to Thailand where they settled, and raised money for fighting the communists through the heroin trade. They were granted citizenship by the Thai government on the condition that they help the Thai military fight communist insurgents, and give up their involvement in the Golden Triangle heroin trade. The KMT village of Mae Aw, in Burma, was moved across the border to Thailand where it became New Mae Aw (
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