Yangon: Head of Junta Myanmar Monday announced the release of more than 5,000 people who were imprisoned for protesting the February coup, the days after the regional block delivered a large snub to the military regime.
There was chaos in Myanmar since the coup, with more than 1,100 civilians killed in bloody oppression to dissent and more than 8,000 were arrested, according to the local monitoring group.
More than 7,300 is currently behind the bar, according to assistance associations for political prisoners.
Junta Head Min Aung Hlaing said a total of 5,636 detainees would be released to mark the thadingyut festival later in October.
The announcement came to the heel of the ASEAN decision to exclude Min Aung Hlaing from the upcoming peak of the 10th block of the state for his government’s commitment to trace the bloody crisis.
Min Aung Hlaing does not provide details about who will be included in the list and prison authority does not respond to AFP requests for comments.
The Myanmar authorities released more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons throughout the country in June, including critical journalists against the military government.
Still in detention including American journalists Danny Fenster, who had been arrested since being arrested on May 24.
More than 1,300 of them to be released will be released in the condition they signed a promising agreement, Min Aung Hlaing said.
The agreement is “basically a form of parole that requires constant threatening supervision”, David Mathieson, an analyst who was previously based in Myanmar, told AFP.
“It does not free the bag (State Administration Board, as a Dubs Junta itself) from nine months with extreme violence.” The Minister of Foreign Affairs from the Southeast Asian Nations Association on Friday decided to exclude Min Aung Hlaing, instead of choosing to invite “non-political representatives” for Myanmar to the October 26-28 summit.
Blocks, are widely criticized as organizations without ompong, standing upright after the junta refused the request for the special envoy to meet “all stakeholders” in Myanmar – the phrase that was seen including the civil leader who was overthrown with Aung San Suu Kyi.
ASEAN’s statement noted that “inadequate progress” in the implementation of the five-point plan agreed upon by block leaders in April to end the post-coup chaos.
Junta slammed the decision, accusing ASEAN to violate non-interference policies in domestic affairs of member countries.
Myanmar, mostly ruled by the military since the 1962 coup, has become a thorn on the ASEAN side since joining in 1997.
Administration Min Aung Hlaing has confirmed its strength by citing alleged cheating in last year’s election, which by Suu Kyi’s National Democracy (NLD ) The party wins convincingly.
This coup breathes in the short-lived Dalliance Myanmar with democracy and the 76-year-old Suu Kyi is now facing a raft of allegations in the Junta Court who can see it imprisoned for decades.
Last week, his lawyer said he had been banned by Junta from talking to journalists, diplomats or international organizations.
Other lawyers on their legal team also face a similar ban – effectively pay off the main sources of information about the court process, from which journalists are prohibited.
Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi, who has spent most of his life that rejects General Myanmar, is scheduled to testify in court for the first time this month.
Myanmar to release more than 5,000 imprisoned by anti-coup protest
