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Yang Mao-liang

Burmese rebel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ8048430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yang Mao-liang (Burmese: ရန်မိုးလျံ; Chinese: 杨茂良; also spelled Yang Mouliang or Yang Moe Lyan, born 1944) is a high-ranking member of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). He was ousted by Peng Jiasheng from MNDAA and Kokang. Yang Mao-Liang established the Peace Myanmar Group company a water and alcoholic beverage manufacture (Myanmar Rum and Myanmar Whisky) at year of 1993.

Yang's brother, Yang Mao-xian, was executed in 1994 by China for his involvement in trafficking heroin into southern China.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Yang Mao-liang” is burmese rebel. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Yang, Mao-liang and Burmese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 1993, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944. For this dossier, Yang, Mao-liang and Burmese is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “burmese rebel” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8048430. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1993 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yang Mao-liang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.