Myanmar’s military govt pardons nearly 10,000 prisoners to mark Independence Day • FRANCE 24

Military government in Myanmar has pardoned nearly 10,000 prisoners to Mark the 76th anniversary of gaining independence from Britain those release though include just a small proportion of the thousands of political detainees jailed for opposing the current Army rule we’re going to talk about this now with France 24 senior reporter seral

Payan seral what more can you tell us well the by the Numbers uh it maybe look very significant this amnesty today but in the meaning not that much because a lot of people were gathering especially in the former in the former capital rangon at the very famous insane Jail uh

Waiting for political prisoners journalists uh academics politicians being jail having been jailed for three years now after the the coup the February 21 coup um well as far as we know maybe one or two so far have been released so out of this huge number of political of sorry prisoners released is

Is they well something which is quite usual in this country especially when the the military leaders are under pressure which is very much the case now uh in the country to release some prisoners but many of them are petit prisoners or uh murders or people who

Will make really TR trouble in in a society so it’s not extremely significant uh it’s just the usual process what is interesting and usually during this day it’s a very important day as you said you have Buddhist holidays too this is marked also by a lot of public uh uh um festivities

People going in the roaming in the streets lot of a uh entertainment I will say and even the leader of the country having a speech today is not at all even Minong Lang the the the PO leader was not appearing on TV which is a first uh

It was to it was very loky and the the the the the the the streets in the cities were quite deserted which is really showing that the country is somewhere like between Civil War or it could be a momentum like 3 years very close to 3 years after the the last coup

And there’s been a major multilateral offensive from the pro democracy resistance recently as well which could have something to do with that well what is going on in this country is a quite Unthinkable if you come back to a few month back we can see this very

Exclusive footage this is a um a Russian made tank which has been sazed by the rebel the ethnic Rebel in the North part of this huge country where you have the military which is a very strong force uh 25% of the budget is devoted to the military in this country here is

Another footage which is another uh um uh Shopper Russian made which has been downed by a missile from the kin the Kia the kin Rebel in a very remote northern part of the country the the the thing is this country is a inhabited by 135 uh uh

Ethnic ethnics and um for the first time for the past three month there there has been the start of a huge offensive by many sorry the ethnic guillas in the the Northwest in the north you can see this map which is very interesting indeed regarding to the situation the in

Green this is the Y the military which is in charge of the country and yellow is the variety of ethnic guillas and Pro Pro Democratic resistance just took this say this part of this country this is the very important because this is bordering with China China is very much

Involved by securing uh the power of the military but also very much involved with the ethnics where he has a lot of businesses Bangladesh this is the Northwest huge offensive hundreds of military post which have been over over overcome by the the resistance and also this also very important because it’s

Close to Napo which is the new capital close to Thailand huge variety of ethnic guillas also were making a lot of actions against the military so there is a momentum it looks like after um three years after the kudeta and two years of of Civil War this new offensive which is

Very coordinated is starting to make a huge progress against the the military y all right s thank you so much for that France 24 B

Myanmar’s military government on Thursday pardoned nearly 10,000 prisoners to mark the 76th anniversary of gaining independence from Britain, but they apparently included just a small proportion of the thousands of political detainees jailed for opposing army rule. FRANCE 24’s Senior Reporter Cyril Payen tells us more.
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