Eric Snider Comments

Eric Snider comments: Judging by all the speculation this is a story that has legs on it. While the antimony mine owned by Pradit's company is located in the southwest corner of Karenni state near the KNPLF base at Hwe Pong Laung, the explosion that killed him seems to have occurred farther north closer to Mae Surin and the large refugee camp at Mae Kong Kha. However, this is an area where the anti-regime KNPP and not the cease-fire KNPLF is active. The 'other' Thai company with logging and mining interests in the area is probably the Polpana company which has been trying to get an import permit for logs felled years ago inside SW Karenni state into Thailand.