A United Wa State Army (UWSA) spokesman Nyi Ram said on his Facebook account on September 26 that news saying drugs seized in Thailand were produced by them was not true.

He said on his Facebook, “Whenever drugs were seized in Thailand, some media at home and abroad along with Thai police made one-sided and the unfounded accusation of these drugs being produced in Wa State without proper investigation. Such accusations are not in accordance with the law and it will undermine the dignity of our organization, UWSA, so we have notified Lashio Media not to mislead the people and hurt the dignity of UWSA.”

Lashio Media posted a news story on September 26 with the headline ‘Methamphetamine drug tablets [worth] 12 million and a lot of Ice owned by a UWSA leader seized in Thailand’.