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====Hluttaw Rebellion==== | ====Hluttaw Rebellion==== | ||
The arrival of Linge Chen and his PCD to power in 1992 caused drastic change to the situation on Zhijun. Chen immediately strenghtened the organs of repression by sending several secret police divisions to Zhijun and letting them loose upon the island to squash all dissent. Several Hluttaw groups led by a former policeman named Kan Kuw San reacted to the crackdown by coalescing into the Green Army to fight the government. The Green Army slipped into the hills to start their insurgency. One of the first Green Army actions was a raid on the Goshen labor camp where they managed to free and forcibly recruit around 400 inmates; a mixed group of political prisoners and petty criminals. | The arrival of Linge Chen and his PCD to power in 1992 caused drastic change to the situation on Zhijun. Chen immediately strenghtened the organs of repression by sending several secret police divisions to Zhijun and letting them loose upon the island to squash all dissent. Several Hluttaw groups led by a former policeman named Kan Kuw San reacted to the crackdown by coalescing into the Green Army to fight the government. The Green Army slipped into the hills to start their insurgency. One of the first Green Army actions was a raid on the Goshen labor camp where they managed to free and forcibly recruit around 400 inmates; a mixed group of political prisoners and petty criminals. | ||
[[File:Green army 3.jpg|thumb|Green Army members]] | [[File:Green army 3.jpg|thumb|Green Army-North Command members]] | ||
====Government Allies==== | ====Government Allies==== | ||
Amid the increasing crackdown, disputes over strategy, disposition of loot and extortion rackets erupted inside the Green Army. A faction named Green Army-North Command led by Hun San emerged that disputed Kan Kuw San's leadership. After a failed assasination attempt with a grenade on Kuw San, open hostilities commenced. Vicious fighting too place in Kyitaw, Ato and Goshen districts before Hun San's faction was forced to retreat with heavy losses. | Amid the increasing crackdown, disputes over strategy, disposition of loot and extortion rackets erupted inside the Green Army. A faction named Green Army-North Command led by Hun San emerged that disputed Kan Kuw San's leadership. After a failed assasination attempt with a grenade on Kuw San, open hostilities commenced. Vicious fighting too place in Kyitaw, Ato and Goshen districts before Hun San's faction was forced to retreat with heavy losses. | ||