This is the best summary I could come up with:

Initially developed to take advantage of Chinese demand for gambling, which is illegal in China and many other neighbouring countries, Laukkaing’s casinos evolved into a lucrative front for money laundering, trafficking and in particular for dozens of scam centres.

More than 100,000 foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, were estimated to have been lured to these scam centres, where they were effectively imprisoned and forced to work long hours running sophisticated online fraud operations targeting victims all over the world.

It was China’s visible frustration over the unwillingness or inability of Myanmar’s ruling junta to rein in its allies in Laukkaing which encouraged three insurgent armies, calling themselves the Brotherhood Alliance, to launch their attacks against the military in late October.

He wanted to install allies more compliant to the needs of the then-military government, which at the time was putting pressure on all of Myanmar’s ethnic insurgent groups to transform themselves into pro-government so-called border guard forces.

Peng was part of a generation of warlords in Shan State who emerged in the chaos of the post-independence years in Myanmar, when the central government’s authority did not extend to most border regions.

Over the past month, millions in Myanmar have been enthralled by the triumphant scenes of ethnic insurgents parading captured soldiers and equipment, while the drama of the mafia’s end has been playing out in Laukkaing.

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Laukkaing sounds like the setting for a dusty western setup for Yojimbo