Relatives gather around a bus carrying prisoners being released from Yangon's Insein Prison on April 17, the Buddhist new year. (AFP)

Junta to free 3,000 prisoners in Thingyan amnesty

Myanmar's military regime on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its bloody crackdown on dissent would be freed.

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