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Myanmar Announces Amnesty For 7,114 Prisoners

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact


YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar's junta has granted amnesty to 7,114 convicts at prisons across the country, but it was not immediately known if they ...

Bargaining Burma's Political Prisoners

David Scott Mathieson | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


David Scott Mathieson

Recent amnesties in Burma have been little more than public relations stunts. In September 2008, 9,000 prisoners were released, but only six of them were political activists.