In January 1991, Kokang warlord Peng Jia-sheng assured visiting U.N. officials of plans to end heroin production in Special Region No. 1 within one year and eradicate opium cultivation within seven.
Instead, their hapless mission against a compound suspected of housing the fugitive Somali warlord, Mohammed Aideed, netted nothing more than eight U.N. employees who had been sleeping there.