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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 24 > Thousands of prisoners are freed in Myanmar

Thousands of prisoners are freed in Myanmar


September 24, 2008

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military government said it freed 9,002 prisoners on Tuesday, including the country’s longest-serving political prisoner, Win Tin, and four people elected to Parliament in the landslide victory of opposition parties in 1990, an election....

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