MAE SOT, Thailand (Reuters) - A leader of Myanmar's biggest rebel group was assassinated at his home in the Thai border town of Mae Sot on Thursday, his wife told Reuters. Pado Mahn Sha Lar Phan, secretary-general of the Karen National Union, was shot at his two-storey wooden home by two men who arrived in a pickup truck, his wife Kim Suay told Reuters at the scene. He died instantly.
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, he had predicted apossible increase in violence ahead of a constitutionalreferendum in the former Burma in May.
(Reporting by Somjit Rungjumratrussamee; Writing by NoppornWong-Anan; Editing by Ed Cropley)
