(UPDATED) YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar's military said on Thursday it would release almost 6,000 prisoners, including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics adviser who will be deported, in a rare olive branch from the isolated junta.
The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military ousted the elected government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi in a coup on Feb. 1, 2021, and a bloody crackdown on dissent that has seen thousands jailed.
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