Junta releases 9002 prisoners: hope prevails

by Amitjha | September 22, 2008 at 10:05 pm

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This is very good gesture on the part of junta,this release of prisoner raised hope about the change of heart of junta, ragarding the release of political prisoners.

We haven't heard of any political prisoners being freed," said Nyan Win, a spokesman for the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), whose leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been under house arrest for the last five years.

"I do hope they will be released, but I don't think it will happen."

Myanmar, or Burma as it used to be called, has more than 2,000 people behind bars on account of their political or religious beliefs, human rights groups say.

The junta, which has ruled unchecked since 1962, denies the existence of any political prisoners, saying all detainees have committed crimes.