Naw Kham

[3] Naw Kham was formerly a subordinate associate of Khun Sa, a major ethnic Chinese drug lord who surrendered to the Burmese government in 1996 in exchange for amnesty.

[4] After the Mekong River massacre in October 2011 and subsequent backlash from the Chinese, Laotian officials arrested Naw Kham and extradited him to China on 10 May 2012.

[5] Then in the July 2012 raids of Naw Kham's militia bases, Burmese authorities seized over 600,000 methamphetamine pills and 120 bars of heroin.

[5] Hunting for Naw Kham, the Chinese "special task group" has used new technologies such as the Beidou System according to the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China.

[6] On 21 September 2012, Naw Kham pleaded guilty at the Intermediate People's Court in Kunming, Yunnan[7] to the murders of thirteen Chinese sailors killed during the Mekong River massacre.