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The UWSA is the biggest ceasefire group, with a 16,000-strong army, which recently launched serial attacks on a Shan rebel group in Shan State. “Is there no stopping him [Te Za]?” the diplomat asked.

 

Observers feel it will indeed be difficult to stop the forward progress of Te Za, as he is favored by the junta’s No. 1 leader Than Shwe. In recent years, when Than Shwe and his family holidayed at Ngwe Saung beach, Irrawaddy Division, they stayed at the Myanmar Treasure Beach Resort owned by Te Za, the Rangoon businessman said.

 

In Ngwe Saung alone, the businessman added, Te Za owns at least three big hotels and has been building an airport there. “He is becoming the owner of the country,” he commented wryly.